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Lux Humana – Book of the Week 22 / 2011 : Carry Me Down

M. J. Hyland : Carry Me Down , (2006)

Publisher’s description:

“Ireland, 1971, John Egan is a misfit, ‘a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant who insists on the ridiculous truth’. With an obsession for the “Guinness Book of Records” and faith in his ability to detect when adults are lying, John remains hopeful despite the unfortunate cards life deals him. During one year in John’s life, from his voice breaking, through the breaking-up of his home life, to the near collapse of his sanity, we witness the gradual unsticking of John’s mind, and the trouble that creates for him and his family.”

Access in Helka-database:

https://helka.linneanet.fi/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?LANGUAGE=Finnish&DB=local&Search_Arg=1-84195-971-5%20&SL=None&Search_Code=020B&CNT=50&HIST=1&init=1

Articles:
 

I’m a human lie detector, honest

Geraldine Bedell

The Observer , 23 April, 2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/apr/23/fiction.features4

A heartrendingly domestic work full of compassion from M. J. Hyland

Gregory Day

The Age , March 4, 2006

http://www.theage.com.au/news/book-reviews/carry-me-down/2006/03/03/1141191834099.html

Listening to the child within

Tom Gatti

The Times , April 8, 2006

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article702703.ece

Dry wit and sticky moments of an Irish childhood

Patricia Craig

The Independent , 28 April, 2006

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/carry-me-down-by-m-j-hyland-475835.html

M.J. Hyland’s study of the hypocrisies that taint human behaviour

James Lay

The Sydney Morning Herald , March 30, 2006

http://www.smh.com.au/news/book-reviews/carry-me-down/2006/03/06/1141493573315.html

 Enormous 11-year-old with gigantic troubles

Anne Julie Wyman

San Francisco Chronicle , March 19, 2006

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/19/RVGU9GJAKK1.DTL

Helping hands

Kate Thompson

The Guardian , 22 April, 2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/apr/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview30

An Analysis Of Main Character Conflicts In  M.J. Hyland’s Carry Me Down

Yossy Fadly

University of Sumatra , 11 May, 2011

http://repository.usu.ac.id/handle/123456789/24147

 
 

Lux  Humana on lääketieteen opiskelijoille  ja terveydenhuollon  ammattilaisille suunnattu humanistinen kirjakokoelma Terkossa. Siellä voit tavata ylioppilas Raskolnikovin, Sinuhe egyptiläisen ja Nalle Puhin ; voit tutustua Tsehovin, Kafkan tai Kierkegaardin maailmoihin ; voit perehtyä lääketieteen  filosofiaan, sosiologiaan tai historiaan. Lähes 3000 kokoelmaan tarkoin valittua teosta odottaa sinua, joka haluat avartaa näkemystäsi ihmiselon eri puolista.

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*****

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Lux Humana – Book of the Week 39 / 2010 : Secret scripture

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.”

Access in Helka-database:

https://helka.linneanet.fi/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?LANGUAGE=Finnish&DB=local&Search_Arg=978-0-571-21530-0&SL=None&Search_Code=020B&CNT=50&HIST=1&init=1

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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/3673097/I-do-remember-terrible-dark-things….html

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

Lux  Humana on lääketieteen opiskelijoille  ja terveydenhuollon  ammattilaisille suunnattu humanistinen kirjakokoelma Terkossa. Siellä voit tavata ylioppilas Raskolnikovin, Sinuhe egyptiläisen ja Nalle Puhin ; voit tutustua Tsehovin, Kafkan tai Kierkegaardin maailmoihin ; voit perehtyä lääketieteen  filosofiaan, sosiologiaan tai historiaan. Lähes 3000 kokoelmaan tarkoin valittua teosta odottaa sinua, joka haluat avartaa näkemystäsi ihmiselon eri puolista.

Tervetuloa tutustumaan kokoelmaamme virtuaalisesti http://www.helsinki.fi/kirjasto/terkko/lux/
tai paikan päällä Terkossa (Haartmaninkatu 4).

*****

©Koonnut: Lassi Pohjanpää, Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto, Meilahden kampuskirjasto Terkko