Stay
Stay follows Abbey, a young woman from Canada now living in a village outside Galway. She falls in love with Dermot, an older Irish man, in an unconventional, affectionate but troubled relationship.... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1551925680
ISBN13:9781551925684
Release Date:February 2005
Publisher:Raincoast Books
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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Stay - a postcolonial examination of Ireland
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
What I loved most about this book was that it was more than a love story and more than a "journey of self discovery". The characters in this novel delve into history, their own as well as their country's and come up with hard answers to the questions how are we shaped by our culture and by the events that have come before us? So many of the scenes that stayed with me - Deirdre going into labour at the wake, the exumation of the bog body and Dermot throwing his boots at the church wall while being watched by Abbey - resonated because of their authenticity.The villagers,a colourful Greek chorus, were both hilarious and genuinely moving.I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in reading a beautifully written novel about relationships or Ireland and it's complex history.
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