Sebastian Barry Libros Populares
Sebastian Barry Biografía y Hechos
Sebastian Barry (Dublín, 5 de julio de 1955) es un dramaturgo, novelista y poeta irlandés, considerado como uno de los principales escritores contemporáneos de su país.[1] Barry comenzó su carrera literaria principalmente como poeta, para después empezar a escribir obras teatrales y novelas. Ha sido nominado tres veces para el Man Booker Prize y el único en ganar el Premio Costa Book de novela en dos ocasiones, en 2008 y 2017.[2] Biografía Hijo de la actriz irlandesa Joan O'Hara (fallecida en 2007), estudió en el Catholic University School y se licenció en inglés y latín por el Trinity College (Dublín). Vive en el condado de Wicklow con su mujer, Alison Deegan, actriz y guionista, y sus tres hijos: Coral, Merlín y Toby.[3] Obra Barry empezó su carrera literaria con la publicación de la novela Macker's Garden en 1982, que fue seguida de varios libros de poesía; su segunda novela salió cinco años más tarde, The Engine of Owl-Light, y en 1988 dio comienzo su carrera como dramatrugo con Boss Grady's Boys, estrenada en el Abbey Theatre. La mayoría de su obra teatral y literaria se centra en estudios sociales y psicológicos ficcionalizados de miembros reales de su familia en la Irlanda de la primera mitad del siglo XX, como El caballero provisional (2014), novela sobre un tío abuelo suyo que fue reclutado temporalmente como oficial del ejército británico; o Días sin final (2016), libro inspirado en las experiencias homosexuales de su hijo Toby. El protagonista de su obra de teatro más conocida, The Steward of Christendom (1995), fue su tatarabuelo materno, James Dunne, Thomas en esta pieza que ganó el Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. James fue el superintendente jefe de la policía de Dublín entre 1913 y 1922, responsable de la seguridad británica alrededor del castillo de Dublín hasta la instauración del Estado Libre Irlandés el 16 de enero de 1922. La obra explora la tensión interna de Dunne entre mantenerse leal a los británicos o pasar a apoyar al nuevo país. La temática de la dislocación física y psicológica en el seno del lealismo irlandés a comienzos del siglo XX también la explora en la novela Los paraderos de Eneas McNulty (1998), en la que un joven irlandés se ve forzado por sus propios amigos a emigrar de Irlanda tras la Guerra de Independencia. Su novela Más y más lejos —que incide en las lealtades encontradas de los reclutas irlandeses siguiendo el Alzamiento de Pascua de 1916— fue nominada al prestigioso Man Booker Prize y seleccionada por Dublín como su One City One Book (Una ciudad, un libro) del año (evento en el que todos los habitantes de la ciudad son invitados a leer la obra premiada).[4] La novela cuenta la historia de Willie Dunne, hijo de James Dunne, que luchó como recluta británico durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. En el lado de Canaán aborda la vida de su tía-abuela Lily Bere, hermana de Willie Dunne e hija de James Dunne, que fue obligada a emigrar a Estados Unidos. Nominada al Man Booker de 2011, la novela ganó al año siguiente el Walter Scott Prize.[5] Días sin final cuenta la historia de un oficial del ejército yankee durante la Guerra de Secesión, que cae enamorado de un compañero de filas, por el que se traviste y con el que se acaba casando; la mayor parte de las vivencias homosexuales contadas en la novela están basadas en las del hijo de Barry, Toby. Obras Poesía The Water Colourist (1983) The Rhetorical Town (1985) Ficción Mackers Garden (1982) The Engine of Owl-Light (1987) The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998) — Los paraderos de Eneas McNulty, trad.: Alejandro Pérez Viza; Lumen, 2001 Annie Dunne (2002) A Long Long Way (2005) — Más y más lejos, trad.: María Candelaria Posada, La Otra Orilla, 2008 The Secret Scripture (2008) — La escritura secreta, trad.: Carol Isern; La Otra Orilla, 2009 On Canaan's Side (2011) — En el lado de Canaán, trad.: Laura Vidal, Alba Editorial, 2016 The Temporary Gentleman (2014) — El caballero provisional, trad.: Laura Vidal, Alba Editorial, 2016 Days Without End (2016) — Días sin final, trad.: Susana de la Higuera Glynne-Jones; AdN, Madrid, 2018 Teatro The Pentagonal Dream (1986) Boss Grady's Boys (1988) Prayers of Sherkin (1990) White Woman Street (1992) The Only True HIstory of Lizzie Finn (1995) The Steward of Christendom (1995) Our Lady of Sligo (1998) Hinterland (2002) Whistling Psyche (2004) Fred and Jane (2004) The Pride of Parnell Street (2008) Dallas Sweetman (2008) Tales of Ballycumber (2009) Andersen's English (2010) Referencias. Descubre los libros populares de Sebastian Barry. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Sebastian Barry
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Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic GibbonWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHYoung Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and ...
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Hangsaman
Shirley JacksonShirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the reallife, unsolved disappearance of a female college student.'Shirley Jack...
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Prophet Song
Paul Lynch'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The explosive literary sensat...
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Evangelista's Fan
Rose Tremain‘A master class in the art of storytelling’ ObserverThis short story collection demonstrates the enormous range of Tremain’s talent and imagination. The teasing and brilliant title...
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Enduring Love
Ian McEwanAS FEATURED ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERSDiscover the tragic masterpiece from Booker prizewinning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan.One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose...
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Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa GyasiSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021From the bestselling author of HomegoingAs a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Al...
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A Farewell to France
Noel BarberSonia Riccardi, impetuous and sensual, is a woman no man could resist. And Larry Astell, heir to a champagne fortune, knows their passion is the most important part of his life. Un...
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The Witch
Shirley JacksonA terrifying short story from Shirley Jackson, the master of the macabre tale.Shirley Jackson's chilling tales of creeping unease and random cruelty have the power to unsettle and ...
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The Sweetness of Water
Nathan HarrisLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEA TIMES BEST PAPERBACK 2022, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2021, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBA...
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When Light Is Like Water
Molly McCloskey'It is brilliant: her finest book yet' Anne Enright 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor 'Fresh and raw and completely entrancing' Sara Baume 'Powerful' Edmund White Alice, a young American...
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The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.'So says Jo...
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Curiosities of Literature
John SutherlandHow much heavier was Thackeray's brain than Walt Whitman's? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while...
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The Stornoway Way
Kevin Macneil‘Fuck everyone from Holden Caulfield to Bridget Jones, fuck all the American and English phoney fictions that claim to speak for us; they don’t know the likes of us exist and they ...
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Blue Ruin
Hari KunzruIt's the 1990's, and Jay is an artist tipped for greatness. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, a promising career is already taking shape before him. Despite the ...
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When Will There Be Good News?
Kate AtkinsonThe third Jackson Brodie novel, winner of Richard & Judy's Best Read: literary crime from the numberone bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.'An exhilarating read. ...
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The Poetry of Birds
Simon ArmitageA STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS'Some of the most ethereal verse ever written' Sunday Telegraph 'A glorious...
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A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe & Christopher Bristow'The most reliable and comprehensive account of the Great Plague that we possess' Anthony Burgess In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Def...
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Crowe's Requiem
Mike McCormackCROWE'S REQUIEM tells the story of John Crowe, a young man born into a village without any apparent history or contact with the outside world. Coming under the tutelage of his ...
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River Sing Me Home
Eleanor ShearerInspired by extraordinary true events, River Sing Me Home is a soaring story of courage and sacrifice, and a testament to the remarkable tenacity of hope. Soon to be adapted as a...
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The House of Special Purpose
John BoyneFrom the bestselling author of The Heart's Invisible FuriesRussia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior...
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Fallen
Lia MillsFallen by Lia Mills a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War and the Easter RisingSpring, 1915. Katie Crilly gets the news she dreaded: her beloved twin bro...
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Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera:
Jeanette WintersonWith Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Kate Mosse, Andrew Motion, Colm Tóibín, Joanna Trollope, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson &a...
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The Balkan Trilogy
Olivia Manning'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess'So glittering is the overall parade and so en...
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History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund'A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite' LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE YARDHow far would you go to belong? Fourteenyearold Linda lives with her p...
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Trio
William BoydWilliam Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to preorder now'An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassina...
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Ragtime
E. L. DoctorowWelcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J. P...
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The World According To Garp
John IrvingThis is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and death of a famous mother and her almostfamo...
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The Book of Unholy Mischief
Elle Newmark'Unashamedly fun, will appeal to fans of Kate Mosse and Dan Brown... full of twisting passageways, wall tapestries complete with spy holes, and all manner of skulduggery' NEW BOOKS...
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Silt
Robert MacfarlaneIn Silt, bestselling travel writer Robert Macfarlane walks the Broomway, the deadliest path in Britain.In one of the most striking chapters of his brilliant 2012 book The Old Ways,...
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White Teeth
Zadie SmithAn unforgettable portrait of London and one of the most talked about debuts of all time!'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' GuardianOn New Years Day 197...
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Bel-ami
Guy de Maupassant & Douglas ParmeeYoung, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as BelAmi, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new c...
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Strange Flowers
Donal RyanWinner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE'One of the g...
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'Poor Fish of Circumstance': Sebastian Barry and the History Play (Critical Essay)
Irish University Review: a journal of Irish StudiesThis essay considers Sebastian Barry's 2009 play Tales of Ballycumber as a response both to criticisms of Barry's earlier plays and to a broader tradition of representing history o...
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The Longest Climb
Dominic FaulknerThe Longest Climb is the utterly compelling account of Dominic and his team's expedition from the Dead Sea to the peak of Everest. His team EverestMax were the first ever to make t...
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Ludmilla PetrushevskayaA woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beauti...
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Temps immemorials
Sebastian BarryUna novel·la extraordinària sobre la memòria, l'amor, el misteri i els comptes pendents amb el passat. El policia retirat Tom Kettle gaudeix de la tranquil·litat de la seva no...
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Crime and Punishment
Fiódor Dostoyevski & Oliver Ready'A truly great translation . . . This English version really is better' A. N. Wilson, The SpectatorTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014This acclaimed new translation o...
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The Last of Us
Harriet CummingsCan you love a man you barely remember?The brand new novel for fans of Anita Shreve, Maggie O'Farrell and Susan Elliot Wright from the Books are my Bag Award shortlisted author of...
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The Goodbye Look
Ross MacDonaldLew Archer, worldweary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is involved in their own burglary. But when a fello...
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To Sing of War
Catherine McKinnonFrom the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War.'Transcends the boundaries ...
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Baumgartner
Paul AusterA tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.The life of Sy Baumgartner noted author, and soontobe retired philosophy professor has been de...
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The Shadow of the Sun
Ryszard Kapuściński & Klara Glowczewska'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski ha...
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Babette's Feast
Isak Dinesen'And it happened when Martine or Philippa spoke to Babette that they would get no answers, and would wonder if she had even heard what they said ... Orshe would sit immovable on th...
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Shoulder the Sky (World War I Series, Novel 2)
Anne PerryIt is the spring of 1915, but deep in the trenches, there is no summer in sight... Shoulder the Sky is the second novel in Anne Perry's insightful and harrowing quintet charting t...
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How to Leave the House
Nathan NewmanThe funniest, wildest and most original debut novel of 2024 'Gobby, barbed and garrulous' Eley Williams'Truly original' Nicola Dinan, author of Bellies'Genuinely hilarious' Keiran...
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The Way I Found Her
Rose Tremain'A magical invention of pageturning suspense, of sadness, grief and passion' The TimesLewis Little, precocious thirteenyearold, is spending summer in Paris with his mother, Alice.A...
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Olive, Again
Elizabeth StroutFrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith'A superbly gifted storyte...
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Useful Idiots
Jan MarkSet in a highly realistic dystopic future, where the lowlands of Britain are flooded, this beautifully realised novel explores a world where archaeology is controlled for fear of s...
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Montpelier Parade
Karl GearySelected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Irish Times and The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2017 ‘A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novel… He's yet...
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One Good Turn
Kate AtkinsonThe second Jackson Brodie novel (after Case Histories): literary crime from the prizewinning, numberone bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.'An absolute joy to read...t...