This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Jane urquhart, order of canada oc born june 21, 1949 is a canadian novelist and poet born in geraldton, ontario. Away is a graceful and moving novel that unites the personal and the political and explores the most private, often darkest corners of our emotions where the things that root us to ourselves endure. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Publication date 1994 topics irish fiction publisher new york, n. After several weeks, the most popular 10 titles in each of five canadian regions were published. With stunning virtuosity, the stories in jane urquharts dazzling first book of fiction unearth universal truths as they reach across countries and eras.
Globe and mailone of those novels that moves in and takes over your life. Good writing, interesting plot, but i found myself drifting away from the page and having to keep pulling myself back to the story. A canadian of irish descent, prizewinning author jane urquhart offers four generations of family history from. Away ebook by jane urquhart 9781551994239 rakuten kobo. Shop amongst our popular books, including 49, the underpainter, the stone carvers and more from jane urquhart. Away won the trillium award and was shortlisted for the impac dublin literary award. Jane urquharts novel away has been widely heralded as a postcolonial text. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The novelist talks about the inspiration for her 1993 work away and reads a passage from the book. The 1994 winner of the marian engel award, urquhart was. Jane urquhart is the bestselling author of five internationally acclaimed, awardwinning novels. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The following entry provides an overview of urquharts life and career through 1995.
Changing heaven, in which, to quote eudora welty, she felicitously managed to make a dot on. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. The whirlpool jane urquhart novel, the whirlpool book. Jane urquhart, order of canada oc born june 21, 1949 is a canadian novelist and poet born. A stunning, evocative novel set in ireland and canada, away traces a familys complex and layered past.
As poetically detailed as the whirlpool, her first novel, jane urquharts changing heaven is a literary romance which explores the romantic love that preoccupies urquharts characters. A finely nuanced, lyrical fourth novel from the awardwinning urquhart away, 1994, etc. Away is the irish term for being possessed by the spirits, and the spirit world is never far from urquharts tale. Jane urquhart on why she wrote her new book, her favourite. As a novelist, urquhart is well known for her evocative style which blends history with the present day.
Buy the paperback book away by jane urquhart at indigo. Plus, fabulous quotes from away by jane urquhart and other recommendations. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven awardwinning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of lake erie, jane urquharts stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenthcentury past, in ireland and ontario, into a gradually unfolding contemporary story.
The whirlpool by jane urquhart editions first published in 1986 download. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Shelburne public library features the works of jane urquhart. It is not a fictional location, but in jane urquharts hands, southern ontario has become an entire imagined world, much like thomas hardys wessex or william faulkners yoknapatawpha county. Jane urquhart did go to yorkshire, and the result was a novel.
Written in luminous prose, the whirlpool is a haunting tale set in ni. There is something that is sheer poetry about every word she writes. She is the author of seven internationally acclaimed novels. A stunning, evocative novel set in ireland and canada, away traces a familys complex and. Jane urquhart 1949 born jane carter canadian novelist, poet, and short story writer. On raithlin, a small island off the northern irish coast, in the mid19th century, a young woman named mary is changed forever by a romantic, tragic encounter. Written in sensuous, evocativeprose, away will confirm jane urquhart as one of the most accomplished novelists of our day. Away, which won the trillium award and was a finalist for.
A teacher marries her, providing stability if not sanity, but the 1840s famines begin and the couple flee ireland with their child liam. A woman runs away to a cottage in the english moors to escape a love affair. However, the limitations of the settler nationalism espoused by the novel make this claim problematic. Jane urquhart is the author of eight novels, including the underpainter, the stone carvers, a map of glass, sanctuary line and, most recently, the night stages, which is being published this month. Jane urquhart is the author of five internationally acclaimed novels. Away, published in 1993, won the trillium award and was a national bestseller.
The whirlpool won frances prestigious prix du meilleur livre etranger. The stone carvers was longlisted for the booker prize and shortlisted for the giller prize. Has anyone been able to download it from amazon for kindle readers. A strange irish girl is away ever since she lay beside a drowned man. Shelburne public library features the works of jane urquhart jane urquhart is a powerful, lyrical writer. Near the opening of the book, mary watches the flotsam from a shipwreck wash ashore. Jane urquhart is the author of seven novels most recently sanctuary line and four poetry collections. Jane urquhart is an awardwinning novelist and poet. A stunning, evocative novel set in ireland and canada, away traces a familys. Pdf this article analyses the various connotations of the name of the protagonist in jane urquharts irishcanadian novel away, first published in. Praise a dazzling novelwritten by a major novelist at the height of her considerable powers. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us. This is also a book i reread every couple of years when i want to center myself a book where my point of convergence places me firmly in time, and out of time. Read away by jane urquhart available from rakuten kobo.
Away begins in the first half of the 19th century, off the north coast of ireland, where the young omalley family finds its bliss shattered by british bureaucracy which leaves father without a. I would say this is jane urquhart at her best, but then i say that about every one of her books. Urquhart returns once again to this literary landscape in her latest work, a melancholy history of a. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading away. Like her protagonist, jane urquhart paints a landscape in her mind, so rich in colours and shades, and so full of life real and imagined, large as the ocean, minuscule as a tide pool and so intimate in the depiction of its human inhabitants with their deep connection to the land and the waters that sustain them. In 1997, her fourth novel, the underpainter, won the governor generals literary award. Away by jane urquhart and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. She sweeps you away in the current of time past and present. Turf wars kicked off last october, with book lovers and cbc listeners recommending titles for the 20 round of canada reads. April 28, 1994 the body of this novel in its narration is as suspended as the pendulum movement of waves in a body of.
Away is the irish term for being possessed by the spirits, and the spirit world is never far from urquhart s tale. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Away, urquharts third novel, broke records by remaining on the the globe and mail newspapers national bestseller list for 2 weeks. Taken one summer during ww i by his minespeculating father to the northern shore of lake superior, teenager austin fraser.
Enjoyable not only for its complexity and subtle characterization, but also for the sheer power of urquhart s writing. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern irish coast in. Lovers of away will delight in urquharts return to ireland and will recognize her exploration. They establish a homestead in a remote part of ontario where a. Jane urquhart, one of canadas best loved writers, was born in the north, in little longlac, ontario, and grew up in northumberland county and toronto.
There is a story in this book as well, a normal narrative tale about an irish familys migration from the old to the new world, which is in and of itself interesting and compelling, but. Jane urquharts the night stages, a novel of melancholy and missed chances. Find out why you should read this book or why you should avoid it. In 1992, her first novel, the whirlpool, was the first canadian book to win frances prestigious prix du meilleur livre etranger best foreign book award.
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