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PRAISE FOR JENNIFER JOHNSTON: Masterly...her books bring to mind other Irish craftsmen such as William Trevor and the late Josephine Hart (Daily Express)
A brilliant storyteller (Literary Review)
Roddy Doyle called Johnston the best writer in Ireland. Mesmerising, powerful fiction (Red)
A bittersweet demonstration of the impossibility of love... shot through with a luminous magic (Independent - John Walsh)
Masterly (The Sunday Times - Penelope Lively)
'[Johnston's] novels display a surface smallness that belies their immense depths. She is a storyteller of truth and its consequences, and her books are deep and worthwhile considerations of the human condition... A Sixpenny Song is a truly moving novel evidencing beyond all reasonable doubt, if any such proof were required, not only that the fire has yet to burn out but that Miss Johnston, at 83 years old, remains at the very top of her game' (Irish Examiner)
Johnston is noted for her brevity, the pared-back quality of her writing (Irish Times)
'The Costa prizewinner and Booker-shortlisted Johnston knows how to tell a story succinctly...[she writes with] the deceptive ease of a skilled craftswoman...further proof of her skill as a writer' (Irish Independent)
'[A] beautifully written novella... so well-written, so deeply imagined, that the reader will find delight even in the encircling gloom' (Scotsman)
Alluring and powerful (The Press Association)
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A brilliant storyteller (Literary Review)
Roddy Doyle called Johnston the best writer in Ireland. Mesmerising, powerful fiction (Red)
A bittersweet demonstration of the impossibility of love... shot through with a luminous magic (Independent - John Walsh)
Masterly (The Sunday Times - Penelope Lively)
'[Johnston's] novels display a surface smallness that belies their immense depths. She is a storyteller of truth and its consequences, and her books are deep and worthwhile considerations of the human condition... A Sixpenny Song is a truly moving novel evidencing beyond all reasonable doubt, if any such proof were required, not only that the fire has yet to burn out but that Miss Johnston, at 83 years old, remains at the very top of her game' (Irish Examiner)
Johnston is noted for her brevity, the pared-back quality of her writing (Irish Times)
'The Costa prizewinner and Booker-shortlisted Johnston knows how to tell a story succinctly...[she writes with] the deceptive ease of a skilled craftswoman...further proof of her skill as a writer' (Irish Independent)
'[A] beautifully written novella... so well-written, so deeply imagined, that the reader will find delight even in the encircling gloom' (Scotsman)
Alluring and powerful (The Press Association)
Any novel by Jennifer Johnston is to be celebrated. A SIXPENNY SONG is a mesmerising, powerful novel of love, longing and understanding.
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- EditoreHeadline Publishing Group
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1472209222
- ISBN 13 9781472209221
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine208
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