I Could Read the Sky

I Could Read the Sky
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Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781800182721
ISBN-13 : 1800182724
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Book Synopsis I Could Read the Sky by : Timothy O'Grady

Download or read book I Could Read the Sky written by Timothy O'Grady and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Think about a tune ... the unsayable, the invisible, the longing in music. Here is a book of tunes without musical notes ... It wrings the heart' John Berger 'A masterpiece' Robert Macfarlane 'O'Grady does not just respond to Pyke's stark, beautiful photographs: he gives voice to thousands' Louise Kennedy An old man lies alone and sleepless in London. Before dawn he is taken by an image from his childhood in the West of Ireland, and begins to remember a migrant's life. Haunted by the faces and the land he left behind, he calls forth the bars and boxing booths of England, the potato fields and building sites, the music he played and the woman he loved. Timothy O'Grady's tender, vivid prose and Steve Pyke's starkly beautiful photographs combine to make a unique work of fiction, an act of remembering suffused with loss, defiance and an unforgettable loveliness. An Irish life with echoes of the lives of unregarded migrant workers everywhere. Since it was first published in 1997, I Could Read the Sky has achieved the status of a classic.


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