Winner of Sorrow

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-56478-521-3
Verlag: DALKEY ARCHIVE PR

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 196 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

A fictional imagining of the gentle but troubled zealot William Cowper--best known as a precursor to Romantics such as Wordsworth and Burns--Brian Lynch's The Winner of Sorrow brings to life the mind and times of an eighteenth-century poet. Intense and exhilarating, this is literary fiction at its finest--the reader will be hard-pressed not to rush ahead to see what happens next. Yet you'll want to savor every word as Lynch traces Cowper's tragic descent into madness, which is presented matter-of-factly so that the novel is not sentimental but austere, not precious but serious, and yet, remarkably, lively, sensuous, and blackly comic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lynch, Brian

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Lynch was born in 1945 in Dublin, where he still lives. Samuel Beckett nominated him for election to Aosdána in 1983, praising his "exceptional talent".