The Thing About December -

Donal Ryan

The Lilliput Press

2013

208 páginas

6h 56m

ISBN-13: 9781843512721

From the author of the award-winning The Spinning Heart comes a heart-twisting tale of a lonely man struggling to make sense of a world moving faster than he is. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey Cunliffe's life, The Thing About December breathes with Johnsey's grief, bewilderment, humour and agonising self-doubt.

While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who have protected him from a harsh world all his life. Village bullies and scheming land-grabbers stand in his way, every which way he turns. It's no wonder the crossbeam in the slatted shed seems to call to Johnsey.