Cold Eye Of Heaven The Novel

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781564781444
  • 30 april 2015
  • 240 pagina's
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Farley, a seventy-five year old man, lies on his bathroom floor, having just suffered a stroke. As his mind sifts through his past, we are introduced to the loyal friend he once was, his loving wife, the city of Dublin, and the question of how this very ordinary man has become so lonely at the end of his life. Told in reverse, from Farley's penultimate day to decades before, Christine Dwyer Hickey's bestseller is a jarring look at a life up close. First published in 2011, The Cold Eye of Heaven shows Dwyer Hickey's lyrical prose at its best: rendering sorrow, joy, wisdom, and humor in equal measure. Acutely insightful, this is an eerily accurate portrait of what it's like to grow old.

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30 april 2015
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240
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Tweede Auteur
Christine Dwyer Hickey
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Dalkey Archive Press

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Dwyer Hickey

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127 mm
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25 mm
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178 mm
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140 mm
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216 mm
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19 mm
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310 g

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  • Loving portrayal of an elderly Irishman

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    • Fantasierijk
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    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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