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Cal by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: No Category | Series: Irish Classics Ser.
When it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty's masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as "a marvel of technical perfection...a most moving novel whose emotional impact is grounded in a complete avoidance of sentimentality...[It] will become the Passage to India of t ...Show more
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Category: Classics | Series: Irish Classics Ser.
This convenient single-volume edition contains all three parts of Dante's 14th-century poem . Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.It is an acclaimed translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Combining classical and Christian history as well as medieval politics and religion, this trilogy of ...Show more
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
Category: No Category | Series: Irish Classics Ser.
This is the story of a haunted childhood, a house where love and trust are hard to hold on to. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense of life, poverty and violence shift and ob ...Show more
The Green Road by Anne Enright
Category: Fiction | Series: Irish Classics Ser. (Vintage Enright) | Reading Level: very good
Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her own children - forces them to confro ...Show more
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