"A terrible beauty: Paul Lynch's Grace, a shudderingly well-written, dead-real, hallucinatory trip across Famine Ireland."― Emma Donoghue, author of The Wonder "Lynch's wonderful third novel follows a teenage girl through impoverished Ireland at the height of the Great Famine.4/4(95). · Above all and through all it's a perfect story, an exhilarating, odyssean, heart-pounding, glorious story, wrought by a novelist with the eye and the ear and the heart of an absolute master of his trade. Paul Lynch is peerless. Grace Coyle, daughter of Coll, will be one of Brand: Little, Brown and Company. From the savage scalp-shearing of its start, through pages of figurative and literal black, to the 'good blue days' of its end, Grace is a thing of power and of wonder. Paul Lynch writes novels the way we need them to be written: as if every letter of every word mattered. This whole book is on fire. Edna O'Brien.
2 million people died in The Irish Potato Famine when blight destroyed three years of potato crops between to In his novel Grace, Paul Lynch recreates Ireland during the famine. The writing is gorgeous, the protagonist, Grace, memorable, the descriptions of what she experiences while on the road crushing. Paul Lynch is peerless. Grace Coyle, daughter of Coll, will be one of the enduring heroines of world literature." --Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart "From the savage scalp-shearing of its start, through pages of figurative and literal black, to the 'good blue days' of its end, Grace is a thing of power and of wonder. Paul Lynch writes. Grace is fierce wonder, a journey that moves with the same power and invention as the girl at its center. What Paul Lynch brings to these pages is more than mere talent-it's a searing commitment to story and soul, and in witnessing Grace's transformations, one can't help but feel changed too.
“Grace is a thing of power and of wonder, from the savage scalp-shearing of its start, through pages of figurative and literal black, to the ‘good blue days’ of its end. Paul Lynch writes novels the way we need them to be written: as if every letter of every word mattered. This whole book is on fire.” — LAIRD HUNT, author of The Evening Road. Let’s get this out of the way straight up: Paul Lynch’s novel Grace is a tour de force. Not everyone will love it. Let me tell you why I do. A young man, still a teen boy, stands on an open road in defiance of an oncoming speeding vehicle. The year is , the place is western Ireland: the first year of an Gorta Mor – the Great Hunger, the Irish Potato Famine. From the savage scalp-shearing of its start, through pages of figurative and literal black, to the 'good blue days' of its end, Grace is a thing of power and of wonder. Paul Lynch writes novels the way we need them to be written: as if every letter of every word mattered. This whole book is on fire. Edna O'Brien.
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