AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Hyland, M.J. Carry Me Down.(Brief article)(Book review)
Hyland, M.J. Carry Me Down. Canongate, dist. by Grove/Atlantic. 2006. c.352p. ISBN 1-84195-740-2. $23. F
Reminiscent of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this work is a worthy successor to Hyland's critically acclaimed first novel, How the Light Gets In. Set in 1972, the novel relates the moving and troubling tale of John Egan's 11th year. Egan lives in Gorey, in southeast Ireland, with his mother, father, and grandmother. They coexist in a tenuous domestic peace threatened by resentment between the adults and Egan's confusion about others' shifting expectations of him. Hyland credibly evokes Egan's agony in a …
-
- CARRY ME DOWN by MJ Hyland (Canongate, GBP9.99).
-
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
October 10, 2006
700+ words
-
- The trouble with being a lie-detector.(Carry Me Down)(Book review)
-
Magazine article from: The Spectator
Moore, Charlotte
July 29, 2006
700+ words
-
- A boy against the world.
-
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
April 8, 2006
700+ words
-
- Tall story makes it to top flight for Ballymun writer.
-
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
September 15, 2006
700+ words
-
- Carry Me Down.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
-
Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly
January 16, 2006
700+ words
