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Listen "The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 31 'The Lonely Sea and Sky' by Dermot Bolger"
Episode Synopsis
The August Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Dermot Bolger about his novel 'The Lonely Sea and Sky'
“The novel tells the story of the rescue by a small Irish boat of 168
German sailors during World War II. The narrator is Jack Roche, a
14-year-old Wexford lad whose father has been killed at sea. Part
historical fiction, part coming-ofage narrative, this is a perceptive
and exciting novel about life at sea as a way of dramatizing human
relations at their most intense.” — Colm Tóibín
Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/
“The novel tells the story of the rescue by a small Irish boat of 168
German sailors during World War II. The narrator is Jack Roche, a
14-year-old Wexford lad whose father has been killed at sea. Part
historical fiction, part coming-ofage narrative, this is a perceptive
and exciting novel about life at sea as a way of dramatizing human
relations at their most intense.” — Colm Tóibín
Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/
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