Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Undertow

Undertow

John F. Deane
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Sheer survival is difficult enough for the people of a small island off the west of Ireland - what chance do they have of love or even of dignity? In the 1950s their battle is with the savage forces of poverty, disease and religious constraint. Terrible things happen - rape, incest, bestiality - and yet somehow compassion, love and generosity of spirit manage to continue. Brooding over it all is the elemental figure of Big Bucko, symbolic of all that is brutal and disruptive. Four decades later, the island is facing other dangers: the Spanish fishing boats which threaten the livelihood of the trawlermen, the encroachment of tourism and the gradual disintegration of community. But still the people strive to transcend their common legacy of suffering, to reach for love and a new connectedness. Mythic, lyrical and moving, this extraordinary novel sounds the depths of our relationship with nature and with each other, and bears witness to love's endurance in spite of all.
Language
English
Pages
314
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Blackstaff Press
Release
May 01, 2003
ISBN
0856407283
ISBN 13
9780856407284

Undertow

John F. Deane
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Sheer survival is difficult enough for the people of a small island off the west of Ireland - what chance do they have of love or even of dignity? In the 1950s their battle is with the savage forces of poverty, disease and religious constraint. Terrible things happen - rape, incest, bestiality - and yet somehow compassion, love and generosity of spirit manage to continue. Brooding over it all is the elemental figure of Big Bucko, symbolic of all that is brutal and disruptive. Four decades later, the island is facing other dangers: the Spanish fishing boats which threaten the livelihood of the trawlermen, the encroachment of tourism and the gradual disintegration of community. But still the people strive to transcend their common legacy of suffering, to reach for love and a new connectedness. Mythic, lyrical and moving, this extraordinary novel sounds the depths of our relationship with nature and with each other, and bears witness to love's endurance in spite of all.
Language
English
Pages
314
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Blackstaff Press
Release
May 01, 2003
ISBN
0856407283
ISBN 13
9780856407284

More books from John F. Deane

Where No Storms Come

3.1/5 ( ratings)

In The Name Of The Wolf

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Instruments of Art

4.5/5 ( ratings)

A Little Book of Hours

5/5 ( ratings)

Eye of the Hare

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Outlaw Christ: The response, in poetry, to the question Jesus asked: Who do you say that I am?

3.5/5 ( ratings)

In Dogged Loyalty: The Religion of Poetry - The Poetry of Religion

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt: The Cold Heaven

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Selected and New Poems

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Evanjelium podľa Johna

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Kości słonych wód. Wiersze wybrane

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Upon Foreign Soil

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Dear Pilgrims

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Day

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Free Range

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Ordinary Time: Workshop Poems

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Outlaw Christ: The response, in poetry, to the question Jesus asked: Who do you say that I am?

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Achill The Island

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Naming of the Bones

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader