A captivating novel filled with music, friendship and teenage dreams, from the bestselling author of Ghost Light and Star of the Sea
Joseph O Connor was born in Dublin. His books include seven previous novels- Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France s Prix Millepages, Italy s Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls and Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011). His fiction has been published in forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for outstanding achievement in literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. www.josephoconnorauthor.com
Joseph O'Connor's The Thrill of it All uses layered narrative
textures with both serious skill and engaging lightness so that the
core drama emerges with clarity and wit.
*Observer, Books of the Year, 2014*
Occasionally, you read a sentence that you know couldn't be
bettered: Joseph O'Connor's new novel is jam-packed with such
sentences – paragraph after paragraph of brilliance
*Guardian*
O'Connor at his playful and narrative best… shot through with
electricity, packed with sentences that send you spinning, full of
joy and sadness and swerve. This was a book to make my tired heart
soar. Of all the Irish writers working today, Joe O'Connor speaks
better than anyone of what is genuine, what is necessary, and what
is ennobling. A thrill indeed.
*Colum McCann, winner of the US National Book Award and the Impac
Award*
[O’Connor] is warm without being sentimental, and he cuts
effortlessly between comedy and tragedy. Music nerds will love the
most satisfyingly voluminous playlists since High Fidelity
*The Times*
A novel about music, family and friendship...O'Connor brilliantly
evokes the 1980s... This novel is shot through with humour, patois
and all the human contradictions that make the characters truly
memorable.
*Mail on Sunday*
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