The Sea United States and Canada CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY has twice

CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY has twice won the Listowel Writers’ Week short story competition and is a prize winner in the Observer/Penguin short story competition

civil service colleagues

instead he creates a book that is about that failure

and the life of Gebo

Eric Chevillard here seeks to clear up a persistent and pernicious literary misunderstanding: the belief that a novel’s narrator must necessarily be a mouthpiece for his or her writer’s own opinions

The Sea United States and Canada CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY has twiceThe Sea is sordid and illuminating, beautiful, haunting, poetic, and full of love for its characters. Agust Villaronga A moving contribution to the tradition of the metaphysical novel as exemplified by Dostoyevsky and Bernanos, and likewise a worthy counterpart to the vibrant and polyphonic work of fellow Iberians Camilo Jos Cela and Juan Goytisolo, The Sea is a cornerstone of postwar Catalan literature. Set in a tubercular sanatorium in Mallorca