May 22, 2019
Masterpiece from the
contemporary heir to Samuel Beckett or demanding endurance read
with not nearly enough paragraph breaks? We debate Anna Burns'
Booker-Prize winning novel – a tale of suffocating gossip,
ever-present violence and one young woman’s struggle to retain her
sense of self during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. For this
show we were joined by @jenny.mccullough who brought a fascinating
perspective to it from her Northern Irish
background.
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Books mentioned: The People's Act of Love by James Meek, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear Macbride, Days Without End by Sebastian Barry, Troubles by J. G. Farrell, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.
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The twitter feed Jenny mentions is from Dr. Caroline Magennis, @DrMagennis, for Northern Irish literature recommendations.