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John Broderick, Seán Hewitt - Waking Of Willie Ryan, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Waking Of Willie Ryan

Av John Broderick, Seán Hewitt

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Long overlooked but now recognised as a quietly radical masterpiece, The Waking of Willie Ryan reveals John Broderick as one of the most incisive chroniclers of mid‑century Ireland. Set in a midlands town where beauty and brutality uneasily coexist, the novel follows the return of Willie Ryan – once scapegoated for his relationships with men, institutionalised, and written out of local memory – who comes home to die and, in doing so, unsettles the pieties that once destroyed him. Broderick’s portrait of Willie is unforgettably tender: a gay man whose dignity, vulnerability and refusal ‘to serve’ expose the hypocrisies of a society built on fear. Through crystalline prose and an unsparing eye, Broderick maps the forces – clerical authority, bourgeois respectability, inherited shame – that shaped Irish life in the 1960s. A pioneering exploration of queer Irish experience and a devastating critique of provincial cruelty, The Waking of Willie Ryan stands alongside the great modern Irish novels for its moral clarity, elegance, and emotional force.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-07
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 258 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: The Lilliput Press Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781843519898
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John Broderick (1924–1989) was a novelist, critic and patron of the arts, celebrated for his unsparing portraits of Irish provincial life. The only child of a bakery family, he lived for periods in Paris, forming friendships with writers such as Julien Green, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote. His debut novel The Pilgrimage (1961) was banned in Ireland but appeared in the U.S. as The Chameleons, establishing his reputation. A pioneering writer of queer Irish lives, Broderick was contributor to The Irish Times, and was elected to the Irish Academy of Letters in 1968. He died in Bath in 1989, bequething his estate to support the arts of his home town of Athlone.

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JOHN BRODERICK (1924-89) was born in Athlone, County Westmeath, and died in Bath, England. He worked as a journalist and was author of numerous works including The Pilgrimage (1961), An Apology for Roses (1973), The Pride of Summer (1976), London Irish (1979) and The Trial of Father Dillingham (1982).

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