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Cells
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Flayingly authentic and sensationally compelling … one of the best books of the year.' - The Observer
?'A book that few authors would have the courage to write, nor the skill to write so well.' - Irish Independent
'Are you going into town today?' - she says, which annoys me because it' - s something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum, not this again,' - and she says, 'What again?' - and I say, 'Town is shut down,' - and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me like this, she is also wounded by my tone, and I am ashamed then and can only look at my plate, and I decide not to bring up what I intended to bring up, about the past, and about my need for her to apologise for it.
Gavin is spending the quarantine in a small flat in south Dublin with his eighty-year-old mother, whose mind is slowly slipping away. He has lived most of his adult life abroad and has returned home to care for her and to write a novel. But he finds that all he can write about is her.
Moving through a sequence of remembered rooms - the 'cells' - - Gavin unspools an intimate story of his upbringing and early adulthood: feeling out of place in the insular suburb in which he grew up, the homophobic bullying he suffered at school, his brother' - s mental illness and drug addiction, his father' - s sudden death, his own devastating diagnosis, his struggles and triumphs as a writer, and above all, always, his relationship with his mother. Her brightness shines a light over his childhood, but her betrayal of his teenage self leads to years of resentment and disconnection. Now, he must find a way to reconcile with her, before it is too late.
Written with unusual frankness and urgency, Cells is at once an uncovering of filial love and its limits, and a coming to terms with separation and loss.
?'A book that few authors would have the courage to write, nor the skill to write so well.' - Irish Independent
'Are you going into town today?' - she says, which annoys me because it' - s something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum, not this again,' - and she says, 'What again?' - and I say, 'Town is shut down,' - and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me like this, she is also wounded by my tone, and I am ashamed then and can only look at my plate, and I decide not to bring up what I intended to bring up, about the past, and about my need for her to apologise for it.
Gavin is spending the quarantine in a small flat in south Dublin with his eighty-year-old mother, whose mind is slowly slipping away. He has lived most of his adult life abroad and has returned home to care for her and to write a novel. But he finds that all he can write about is her.
Moving through a sequence of remembered rooms - the 'cells' - - Gavin unspools an intimate story of his upbringing and early adulthood: feeling out of place in the insular suburb in which he grew up, the homophobic bullying he suffered at school, his brother' - s mental illness and drug addiction, his father' - s sudden death, his own devastating diagnosis, his struggles and triumphs as a writer, and above all, always, his relationship with his mother. Her brightness shines a light over his childhood, but her betrayal of his teenage self leads to years of resentment and disconnection. Now, he must find a way to reconcile with her, before it is too late.
Written with unusual frankness and urgency, Cells is at once an uncovering of filial love and its limits, and a coming to terms with separation and loss.
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Data wydania: 11.05.2023
Liczba stron: 336
Wymiary: 12.9x19.8
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: Scribe Publications
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Tytuł:Cells
EAN: 9781914484988
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