Author : Eoghan Smith
Publisher : Dedalus Original English Language Fiction In Paperback
ISBN 13 : 9781912868650
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (686 download)
Book Synopsis A Provincial Death by : Eoghan Smith
Download or read book A Provincial Death written by Eoghan Smith and published by Dedalus Original English Language Fiction In Paperback. This book was released on 2024-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical and blackly comic, A Provincial Death is a startlingly original meditation on solitude and perseverance, the consolations of art and philosophy, and the capacity of human beings to endure catastrophe. It is a hot, summer morning and Smyth, a struggling writer and academic, wakes to discover he is stranded alone on a rock in the Irish Sea. As he clings on in hope of salvation, he is assailed by broken memories and the failures of his past. Fragmented images of the previous day come to him: a mysterious research institute, a dead forest, a rickety boat captained by a gruff old fisherman, an eccentric academic named McGovern who believed that the Moon was about to crash into the Earth, destroying everything. Confused, weary and sore, and with the tide rising inexorably and strange sea creatures circling, Smyth tries to make sense of an arbitrary world in a desperate bid for survival.