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Speckled People : Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood by Hugo Hamilton (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100007149980

ISBN-139780007149988

eBay Product ID (ePID)2292875

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

Publication NameSpeckled People : Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Literary, Customs & Traditions, Linguistics / General

Publication Year2003

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorHugo Hamilton

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight16.2 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-033928

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ReviewsNever clichéd, thanks largely to Hamilton s frankly poetic language and masterful portait of childhood a beautiful memoir., Unlike most Irish memoirs, this one is devoid of sentimentality. Which doesn't make it any the less heartrending. , A fine and timely book from an exquisitely gifted writer...beautiful, subtle, unflashy, perfectly realized and quite extraordinarily powerful., The long wait for this most talented novelist to cast his eye over his homeland has been worth it., Never clichÃ©d, thanks largely to Hamilton's frankly poetic language and masterful portait of childhoodâ€¦a beautiful memoir., A masterful piece of work—timely, inventive, provocative and perfectly weighted. Don't be surprised if it becomes a classic., Never clichéd, thanks largely to Hamilton's frankly poetic language and masterful portait of childhood...a beautiful memoir., A memoir of warmth and wisdom...tender and profound and, best of all, tells the truth. I loved it., Evocative, agitating and inspiriting, Speckled People sticks up for diversity and principled dissent...extending the scope of Irish memoir., Never clichd, thanks largely to Hamilton's frankly poetic language and masterful portait of childhood.a beautiful memoir., A masterful piece of work-timely, inventive, provocative and perfectly weighted. Don't be surprised if it becomes a classic., An astonishing account, both delicate and strong, of great issues of twentieth-century Europe, modern Ireland, and family everywhere., A wonderful, subtle, problematic and humane book....about Ireland...about a particular family...about alternatives and complexities anywhere.

SynopsisThe childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place: His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning of the war, encourages them to speak German. All Hugo wants to do is speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt down Hugo (or 'Eichmann' as they dub him) in the streets of Dublin, and English is what they use when they bring him to trial and execute him at a mock seaside court. Out of this fear and confusion Hugo tries to build a balanced view of the world, to turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before this little boy has uncovered the dark and long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents' wardrobe.In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland since Patrick McCabe's THE BUTCHER BOY and Seamus Deane's READING IN THE DARK, acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story., The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place: His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning of the war, encourages them to speak German. All Hugo wants to do is speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt down Hugo (or Eichmann as they dub him) in the streets of Dublin, and English is what they use when they bring him to trial and execute him at a mock seaside court. Out of this fear and confusion Hugo tries to build a balanced view of the world, to turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before this little boy has uncovered the dark and long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents wardrobe.In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland since Patrick McCabes THE BUTCHER BOY and Seamus Deanes READING IN THE DARK, acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story.

LC Classification NumberPR6058.A5526Z47 2003