How to Build a Boat
AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS
$22.50
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2024
Summary
Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland in the most uplifting and tender book of the year.
Jamie O’Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers, and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13, there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind, these things …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529920093 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529920094 |
| Author: | Elaine Feeney |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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A heart-rending and delightful voyage… Elaine Feeney has a poet’s way with words and uncanny understanding of human frailty – Louise Kennedy, author of TRESPASSES * Observer, Summer Reads of 2023 *
About The Author
Elaine Feeney
Elaine Feeney is an acclaimed novelist and poet from the West of Ireland. Her debut novel, As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O’Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. How to Build a Boat was also shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. With her third novel, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way, Feeney was shortlisted again for Irish Novel of the Year and won the Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year. Feeney has published the poetry collections Where’s Katie?, The Radio Was Gospel, Rise and All the Good Things You Deserve, and lectures at the University of Galway.
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