Ebook {Epub PDF} The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan

Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan’s is one. Subtly conceived, masterfully paced, with a wide and memorable cast of characters, The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation, and rebellion. His intimate knowledge of Ireland’s history and literature also helped to inspire his trilogy of historical novels, starting with The Year of the French (, winner of the National Critics’ Circle award for fiction, reissued by NYRB Classics in ) and continuing with The Tenants of /5(). The Year of the French. Author Thomas Flanagan; ; Author: Thomas Flanagan. Publisher: New York: Pocket Books ISBN: Category: Fiction in English Page: View: Download Now.

Praise For The Year of the French (The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy) "Flanagan's method is to plunge the reader into a strange, wild, poetic, cruel, and finally hopeless world of Irish peasants, absentee British landlords, revolutionary terrorists, and men and women trying to hold on to what they have in a universe threatening to turn upside. Flanagan was also a successful novelist. His first novel, The Year of the French, won the National Book Critics Award for fiction in and was adapted into a TV series, which was broadcast in Ireland in Personal life. In , he married Jane Parker, a nurse; they had two children, writer Caitlin Flanagan and Ellen Flanagan Klavan. The Year of the French A Novel by Thomas Flanagan (read 28 June ) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for ) Because of my great interest in Irish history, I decided to read this book, a current novel about the French expedition to Ireland. It is exceptionally well-written, though rather plotless.

Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan's is one. Subtly conceived, masterfully paced, with a wide and memorable cast of characters, The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation, and rebellion. His intimate knowledge of Ireland’s history and literature also helped to inspire his trilogy of historical novels, starting with The Year of the French (, winner of the National Critics’ Circle award for fiction, reissued by NYRB Classics in ) and continuing with The Tenants of Time () and The End of the Hunt (). The Year of the French, by Thomas Flanagan. “Inequality is the root of social evil.”. @ Pontifex AM – 28 Apr We reel from the impact of violence, persecution, massive migrations and political divisiveness, yet similar tribulations plague humanity over the millennia.