Sebastian Barry : The Secret Scripture , (2008)
Publisher description:
“Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she’s spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr. Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne’s story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland’s changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.”
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Articles:
Not all knives and axes
Joseph O’Connor
The Guardian, Saturday 24 May 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/24/fiction1
Old Battles Are Burnished by Time
Dinitia Smith
The New York Times, June 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/books/23smith.html
Ireland’s past is another country
Sean O’Hagan
The Observer, Sunday 27 April 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/apr/27/fiction.culture
‘I do remember terrible dark things…’
Ruth Scurr
The Telegraph, 02 May 2008
Ordinary Madness
Art Winslow
The New York Times, January 16, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/books/review/Winslow-t.html?_r=1
Fools and madmen
Robert Hanks
New Statesman, 22 May 2008
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/05/barry-roseanne-scripture
Sebastian Barry in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Barry
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