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Winterwood (Paperback)

by Patrick McCabe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (3 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747585989
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747585985
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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'A true original' John Banville 'This is McCabe's greatest work A sustained achievement of often dazzling brilliance Winterwood is that rarest thing: a novel dealing with humanity at its most twisted and bleak, but one that leaves the reader feeling curiously uplifted. And that's because we realise that we've been standing in an illuminating beam whose source is, and can only be, truly great art' Irvine Welsh, Guardian 'A masterpiece' Observer 'He is the fortunate possessor of a savage and unfettered imagination; his books dissect life's miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpel' The Times


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Once, in Kilburn, married to the sugar-lipped Catherine and sharing his daughter Immy's passion for the enchanted kingdom of winterwood, Redmond Hatch was happy. But then infidelity, betrayal and the 'scary things' from which he would protect his daughter steal into the magic kingdom, and bad things begin to happen. Now Redmond - once little Red - prowls the barren outlands alone, haunted by the disgraced shade of Ned Strange, a fiddler and teller of tales from his home in the mountainy middle of Ireland.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Clever and absorbing., 11 Oct 2007
This is an involving and very creepy tale from one of Ireland's most original writers. I'm not going to go to great lengths to divulge the plot (other reviewers have already done that!); all you need to know is that it is an intimate first person narrative of a very damaged mind, and it's very difficult to pull back from. Frankly, I'm not going to bother my head over whether or not it's a parable of modern Ireland; it's a compelling read. I would agree with the comment made by an earlier reviewer, to the effect that if you emphatically don't like Patrick McCabe, don't read his books. Whether or not McCabe is a literary genius is something you could argue over for hours, but it's a fact that he's one of the best at what he does out there at the moment. Interestingly, the negative reviewer didn't give any examples of the 'weightier' gothic literature that he claims to prefer. Might that be because he fears exposing his own taste to citicism? Or is it that he simply can't honestly think of any genuine examples?
I'm not sure if 'enjoy' is the right word to use for the reading of 'Winterwood', but it certainly makes an impression.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 15 Aug 2008
By Vyvien A. Starbuck (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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I found the first half of this novel really creepy and gripping...then it all started to get a bit repetitive and the mimicking of an unhinged mind derailed the narration so much it largely diluted the suspense which had been craftily and steadily built up til then. I could hardly be bothered finishing it. Am i the only reader who thought that Redmond ended up taking on elements of Ned Strange's personality (not so odd when there are so many heavy hints of them being related, psychically if not genetically), abducting his daughter and killing her and eventually also killing his ex-wife Catherine? Winterwood was the mythical place he visited post-murder to relive obsessively the happier times he had had with them.
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5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Book of the year contender, 24 Nov 2006
By Guano (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Winterwood (Hardcover)
For me, Winterwood is neck and neck with McCarthy's The Road in the book-of-the-year stakes. In a strange way, it's not dissimilar - a trawl through the belly of hell, except doused in melancholia rather than melodrama. Both books also leave the reader with a strangely elated feeling at the conclusion.
I think it's McCabe's best book. It has the creepiest first person unreliable narrative I've read since Patrick McGrath's Spider (or The Butcher Boy for that matter). Lit crit snobs mightn't like the supernatural elements of course (they had the same problems with Lunar Park), but that's their loss. Presumably they'd prefer the ghosts removed from Shakespeare and Dickens too.
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3.0 out of 5 stars winterwood
Think of a Chuck Palahniuk or Bret Easton Ellis novel set in Ireland's booming Celtic Tiger era and you will not be a kick in the arse away from the premise of Winterwood. Read more
Published 2 months ago by R. Kennedy

5.0 out of 5 stars mc cabe s best?
REALLY A GREAT READ.I READ THIS BOOK IN TWO SITTINGS AS I COULDENT PUT IT DOWN!
SIMILAR IN THEME TO SOME OF HIS OTHER BOOKS BUT NONE THE WORSE FOR THAT. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2007 by G. M. Somers

5.0 out of 5 stars Stories within stories within stories.
Raymond Hatch only wants the best for his wife and child, but is haunted by the ghostly figure of Ned Strange, a famous Irish storyteller, though one recently convicted of the... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2007 by fatpaddykillah

4.0 out of 5 stars Unsettling
Winterwood is a short novel - the narrative of Redmond Hatch. Redmond is an underachiever, having never quite made it in journalism or in various jobs around London. Read more
Published on 16 Jul 2007 by Mister Hobgoblin

5.0 out of 5 stars genius
Winterwood is McCabe's most extraordinary and gripping book yet. I literally was not aware of breathing until I put it down with a sign after reading it in one short sitting... Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2006 by Kait Corrigan

1.0 out of 5 stars Casper come home
I don't know who I am or what to say so I'll say it anyways, then I'll say it again with a ponytail and once more with a pulled-down baseball cap and shaggy beard (... Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2006 by Flavius

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