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Red Sky In Morning (2013)

by Paul Lynch(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0316230251 (ISBN13: 9780316230254)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: Everyone else has given this a higher rating so I suspect the problem is with me, but I had such a difficult time reading this. The author's prose was very convoluted and complex. Sometimes I read entire passages 3 or 4 times and I was still confused. The first 50 pages were almost unbearable. One would think that descriptions of the Irish countryside wouldn't be a puzzle to solve. But I kept reading to the end to find out the mystery. I always keep my eye out for new releases that are more gritty and raw but unfortunately this one did not work for me.
review 2: Nasty and brutish. Not the novel but the life of a poor 1830’s Irishman forced by circumstance to leave pregnant wife and child, suffer the Atlantic voyage pressed below decks with others in their own... more straits, and hire out to a disease-ridden contract labor camp building railroad beds in Pennsylvania, all the while pursued by a vengeful enemy. Reminiscent (as noted in cover blurbs) of some Cormac McCarthy – less a developing plot than a story of a journey and pursuit surrounded and joined by menace and violence, told in flat yet often lyrical language very descriptive of surroundings and atmospherics. Liked it but a bit thin beneath the writing. less

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