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The Story of Lucy Gault
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The Story of Lucy Gault
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This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Released 6 yrs ago (7/5/2005 UTC) at Controlled Release via USPS in San Antonio, Texas USA WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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The Story of Lucy Gault arrived in today's mail. Thanks very much, pjmom8025 and gill846, for sharing this book and sending it along. It's up next on my reading pile, and I should have it off to Wormyone by the end of the month.(Left: author William Trevor.) |
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The Story of Lucy Gault begins in the fictional fishing village of Kilauran, County Cork on June 21, 1921, during the Anglo-Irish war. The town, historically populated by Protestant landowners, is embroiled in conflict, and many Protestants are making the decision to leave. Lucy, nearly nine years old, lives with her father, Captain Everard Gault, and her English mother Heloise on Lahardane, the family's beloved country estate. Lucy Gault begins in a moment of violence: "Captain Everard Gault wounded the boy in the right shoulder on the night of June twenty-first, nineteen twenty-one." Gault has accidentally shot a young Catholic protestor called Horahan, who with a couple of friends was threatening to torch Lahardane. Though he tries to set things right with the boy's family, his efforts are unsuccessful. Gault soon determines he and his family must leave Lahardane -- and Ireland -- for their own safety. What happens next is a tragedy and -- it's been suggested -- an allegory which tells not just "The Story" of Lucy Gault, but the story of Ireland itself in the 20th century. Inadvertently left behind following her parents' departure, Lucy is left at Lahardane to be raised by Henry and Bridget, the house staff. For decades on end the senior Gaults are incommunicado, living in a small town in Italy. Their failure to contact friends, neighbours or even their own house staff in Kilauran is how you know -- finally -- that Lucy Gault is more fable than not. (If you can't let go of your attachment to the literal, this book will drive you crazy...) I found Lucy Gault to be a beautiful book, somewhat like reading a fairy tale only without the happy ending and the rigid distinctions between Good and Evil. Of all the Irish novels I've read this year (I recently finished Grace Notes and The Deposition of Father McGreevy), this was by far my favourite. Thanks again, pjmom and gill846. You can read reviews of Lucy Gault in the Guardian here, the Observer here, the Weekly Standard here and The Age here. |
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Released 6 yrs ago (1/3/2006 UTC) at Somewhere between Santa Cruz, CA and Chaseburg, WI in Santa Cruz, California USA WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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