The Thing About December - Hardcover
'Mother always said January is a lovely month. Everything starts over again in the New Year. The visitors are all finished with and you won't see sight nor hear sound of them until next Christmas with the help of God. The bit of frost kills any lingering badness. That's the thing about January: it makes the world fresh.' Rural Tipperary at the turn of the 21st century. Johnsey Cunliffe, a simple, naive only child in his twenties, grieves the death of his much-loved father. Harassed by local bullies and excluded by his peers,Johnsey's isolation worsens when his inherited farm is re-zoned and becomes valuable.The clouds gather as a local conglomerate tries to tempt Johnsey into giving up his family's land, while Johnsey, the unlikeliest of heroes, must try to hold on to those things dearest to him. Tense, complex and beautifully written, Donal Ryan's brilliant novel captures the loneliness of the outcast, the pain of being an orphan at any age, and the terrible consequences of parochial greed.
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About the Author:
DONAL RYAN was born in a village in North Tipperary, a stroll from the shores of Lough Derg. He wrote his first two books, The Thing About December and The Spinning Heart, in the long summer evenings of 2010. He now lives in Limerick with his wife and children.
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Praise for Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart, winner of the Newcomer of the Year Award and Bookof the Year Award (Bord Gais, 2012) 'What a writer!' - Jennifer Johnston 'I was hugely impressed by The Spinning Heart.There will be many novels which explore the effect of the crash on the people of Ireland but I can't imagine a more original, more perceptive or more passionate work than this. Outstanding.' - John Boyne
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- PublisherThe Lilliput Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1843512726
- ISBN 13 9781843512721
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages207
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