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Cargando... City of Bohane: A Novel (2011 original; edición 2013)por Kevin Barry (Autor)
Información de la obraCity of Bohane por Kevin Barry (2011)
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 "On display, even more than the strutting characters' fashion sense, is the author's virtuosic writing: he has created a unique vernacular of Irish speech patterns mixed with Caribbean terms, delivered in a breathless, conversational style. This hybrid will be of interest both to fantasy and to literary fiction readers." PremiosDistinciones
Set 40 years in the future, the once great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is in terminal decline, with vice and tribal splits rife. Logan Hartnett, godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang has been in charge but his nemesis has arrived back in town, his henchmen are becoming ambitious, his wife wants him to give it all up and go straight and, he has his mother to contend with. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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"Per tot arreu se sentia l'accent de Bohane: pla i rugós en les consonants, tèrbol i cantaire en les vocals, vagament caribeny qualque vegada."
"L'havia mirada a l'ombra i de perfil; l'havia mirada tot l'hivern, però a distància."
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