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

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