Cold Eye Of Heaven

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780857890306
  • 01 september 2011
  • 224 pagina's
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Farley is an elderly Irishman, frail in body but sharp as a tack. Waking in the middle of the night he finds himself lying paralyzed on the cold bathroom floor. And so his mind begins to move backwards, taking us with him into his past. As Farley unravels the warp and weft of his life, he relives the loves, losses and betrayals with the darkly comic wit of a true Dubliner. For this is also Dublin's story, the city Farley has seen through poverty and prosperity, boom and bust - each the other's constant companion throughout his seventy-five years. Epic in scope, rich in detail, and shot through with black humour, The Cold Eye of Heaven is a bitter-sweet paean to Dublin and a unique meditation on the life of one of its citizens.

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01 september 2011
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224
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Tweede Auteur
Christine Dwyer Hickey
Hoofduitgeverij
Atlantic Books

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Dwyer Hickey

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149 mm
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23 mm
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223 mm
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367 g

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  • Loving portrayal of an elderly Irishman

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    • Fantasierijk
    • Meeslepend verhaal
    • ouder worden dementie

    Powerful, warm novel about aging in Ireland, written in reverse order, going from 2010 back to 1940. Chapter 1 finds 75-year old Farley curled on the floor of his smelly toilet floor, drifting in and out of consciousness. When lucid, he tries to remember how he ended here, what he did yesterday, reliving old memories, planning to cry out for help at daybreak when his Polish neighbor leaves for work. But he is voiceless and one side of his body feels as if it is elsewhere. The other half feels cold in the January frost…

    On the day before his stroke (Ch.2), Farley ventured unsteadily through snow-covered Dublin because of the death of his employer of 40 years, Frank Slowley. Farley wants his black suit dry-cleaned and a shoe repaired, a Mass card signed by a priest, and buy some food (at home only corn flakes and butter remain). It is a trip full of sudden arrows in his brain, impaired vision, memory loss, time leaps and awkward personal contacts.

    Chapter 3 is about Farley at 65 in 2000 on the day he retires. He learns that the partnership he secured by investing 25.000 pounds in Frank Slowley’s law firm decades ago, will not bring the expected buy out. It was a gentleman’s agreement, nothing put on paper and Frank’s son Tony now owns the company. But Farley does go to his own farewell party, gets very drunk and leaves without his coat and his farewell presents.

    CDH sketches Farley’s life from age 75 back to age 15, portraying him as an average Irishman, not the sharpest tool in the box, but capable of love, sacrifice and compassion. He is devastated after his beloved wife Martina’s early death and never remarries. Each chapter contains unforgettable snippets of dialogue or description by a sensitive and perceptive, grand writer. Instantly re-readable and highly recommended.

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