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The language is stunning, but this is a tough one. I have to constantly put it down to take a breath.
Robin wrote: "The language is stunning, but this is a tough one. I have to constantly put it down to take a breath."I agree with you completely Robin. It's amazing to me that the author can write so beautifully about such horrific things. I find myself rereading passages just because of how stunning the prose is. I think most people are further along in the book, but I just read the section where Maureen is telling her life story to the ghost, and I am enjoying reading it slowly.
I want to think that I am a good person. But, I can see the good in Maureen.
Lisa McInerney is a young Irish writer and The Glorious Heresies is her first novel, which won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction last year. She was already known for a blog called "The Arse End of Ireland", which gives you some idea of what to expect.
The Glorious Heresies follows the tangled lives of a loosely linked set of characters in Ireland's second city, the port of Cork. It is not a book for those who are easily shocked!
A few reviews etc - these may contain spoilers:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/bo...
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/boo...