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The River Capture

By: Mary Costello
Narrated by: Jean-Paul Van Cauwelaert
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Luke O'Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family's heyday and turns to books for solace.

One morning a young woman arrives at his door and enters his life with profound consequences. Her presence presents him and his family with an almost impossible dilemma.

In a novel that pays glorious homage to Joyce, The River Capture tells of one man's descent into near madness and the possibility of rescue. This is a novel about love, loyalty and the raging forces of nature. More than anything, it is a book about the life of the mind and the redemptive powers of art.

©2019 Mary Costello (P)2019 Canongate Books Ltd Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction

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A sensitive bisexual man is the last of his line on the family farm. He is obsessed by James Joyce and taking time out from teaching English to write a book on Joyce when a beautiful divorcee comes into his life. This produces a tangle of emotions and unearths a 40 year old secret.

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perhaps you need to know James Joyce really well to appreciate this novel more. it seems full of references, but I have only perfunctorily read him, so much gets lost for me in that way and I have no clue if the tedious style of question and answer that towards the end becomes the main body of text is an allusion to the great Irish man and his Bloom character specifically, but it was not for me. Very non-binary/pan-sexually friendly? For the rest no idea what the story was about. I presume just about the flux of life, be it in a day or a longer time span, all the same river of consciousness for the protagonist.

For fans of Joyce?

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