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Billy O'Callaghan - My Coney Island Baby (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Shortlisted for The Encore Award 2020.
On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven; these precious, hidden hours their only nourishment.
But now, amid the howling of an angry snowstorm, the shut-down, out-of-season resort feels like the edge of the world. And their lives, suddenly, are on the brink - with news of serious illness on one side, and a move to the Midwest on the other.
It is an unashamedly romantic book - there is nothing here about the practicalities of carrying out an affair for over twenty years – and some may take issue with the celebration of a love that is causing so much pain to other people, but O’Callaghan balances it well.
My Coney Island Baby explores the realities of middle age, the shadows cast by the past and the uncertainty of the future with an emotional intensity and lyrical beauty that is irresistible.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : As New
- Category : Fiction - Modern Mainstream Fiction
- Published : 2019 (This Edition 2020 - Vintage)
- ISBN : 9781784708764
- SKU : B003342
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time . . . will linger with you long after the book is closed' - The Guardian.
'Novel of the Year is My Coney Island Baby, by Billy O’Callaghan, a lush, precise, poetic account of a love affair that ends the way most love affairs do. We knew O’Callaghan to be a master of the short story, and here he shows the grand reach of his powers as a novelist.' - John Banville, Irish Times - Books of the Year.
'Billy O’Callaghan’s new novel grips from the opening page. The stride of his sentences is long and powerful, his vision raw. A spectrum of intensities from grief to love is revealed as relationships unfold with an honesty that is utterly believable.' - Bernard MacLaverty.
'O’Callaghan has made a significant achievement in this fine novel. Good books remind us of other good books and in its treatment of adultery this one calls to mind thematic ancestors such as Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina and The Scarlet Letter.' - Bert Wright, The Sunday Times.
'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time . . . these characters will linger with you long after the book is closed.' - Claire Kilroy, The Guardian.
'Quiet, subtle and deeply moving. This is a fine novel, with elegance and wisdom lying beneath an unpretentious surface and O’Callaghan, a gifted writer, has managed to do that most difficult of things: take a quiet, almost everyday story and transform it into a thing of beauty.' - John Boyne, The Irish Times.
The Author
Billy O'Callaghan is the author of the critically acclaimed novel My Coney Island Baby, which has been translated into nine languages and was shortlisted for the Encore Award 2020. Stories in his collection The Boatman and Other Stories were shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award and for Writing in Short Story of the Year in the An Post Irish Book Awards. He lives in Douglas, a village on the edge of Cork City.