Crowe's Requiem tells the story of John Crowe, a young man born into a village without any apparent history or contact with the outside world. Coming under the tutelage of his mad, beloved grandfather, Crowe is introduced to an existence he feels compelled to understand but is doomed forever to find elusive and mystifying. Breaking free of the old man's spell - drifting through the city hoping to complete his education - he embarks on a sudden, erotic affair with Marian, a young woman with a broken claim to divinity. Unable to see himself except through a prison of fictions, Crowe's life begins to escape him. Love story and gothic fairy tale, teeming with ghosts, sorcerors and vagrants, Crowe's Requiem is an eerie and treacherous meditation on the nature of storytelling by one of Ireland's finest new writers.
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Mike McCormack comes from the west of Ireland and currently lives in Galway. His first book, Getting it in the Head, was published in 1996 and won various awards, including the Rooney Prize.
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This book simply blew me away when I first read it. The writing is excellent. Each word has obviously been carefully chosen. When reading it, I found myself going over the same passages over and over. The other negative review is perhaps understandable in that, while in places, the author has achieved an authentic rural Irish voice while avoiding stage-Irishisms, for the most part the speech is unconvincing. This can also be said of the female character and the whole love affair. Maybe this is due to it being McCormack's first full-length novel. I get the impression however, that this might be intentional. It is supposed to be a fantasy. One gets the impression that the author intended to convey a lot more then I understood when I, at least, understood when I read the book. For example its' obviously based in Co. Mayo and in Galway city. He goes to a great deal of bother to describe the locale but also goes out of his way to not call these places by name (until the very end). I guess this is all part of some post-modern preoccupation with launguage (or something). Anyway, I realise I've bored (...) anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about. The bottom line is the book is well worth a read.
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This book simply blew me away when I first read it. The writing is excellent. Each word has obviously been carefully chosen. When reading it, I found myself going over the same passages over and over. The other negative review is perhaps understandable in that, while in places, the author has achieved an authentic rural Irish voice while avoiding stage-Irishisms, for the most part the speech is unconvincing. This can also be said of the female character and the whole love affair. Maybe this is due to it being McCormack's first full-length novel. I get the impression however, that this might be intentional. It is supposed to be a fantasy. One gets the impression that the author intended to convey a lot more then I at least, understood when I read the book. For example its' obviously based in Co. Mayo and in Galway city. He goes to a great deal of bother to describe the locale but for some reason also goes out of his way to not call these places by name (until the very end). He seems to share the pre-occupation of some 'post-modern' writers with the names of things and the inability of launguage to properly express the world. The central character has to choose his own name as a child, a long and laborious process because it has to be the right name for him. Anyway, I realise this means nothing to anyone who hasn't read it. The bottom line is the book is well worth a read merely for the quality of the writing alone.
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Ever had that feeling of displacement, of not belonging, floundering around in an inhospitable place, observing all but not experiencing anything much? ...and then just when you feel you are really adjusting, it may be too late...
If that sounds familiar Crowe's Requiem is the novel for you ...a highly unique engaging debut novel from Mike McCormack, you wont be able to leave it down until you've turned the last page.
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