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Highlights
- Both a meditation on time and memory and a poignant depiction of family life in Ireland, Time Present and Time Past was a finalist for the Orange Prize and was described as "outstanding" by the Irish Independent.Ireland, 2006.
- About the Author: Born in Ireland in 1960, Deidre Madden studied at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of East Anglia.
- 170 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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About the Book
Fintan Buckley is a pleasant, rather conventional and unimaginative man, who works as a legal adviser in an import/export firm in Dublin. He lives in Howth and is married with two sons who are at university, and a small daughter. As he goes about his life, Fintan begins to experience states of altered consciousness and auditory hallucinations, which seem to take him out of a linear experience of time. Over the years he becomes distanced from his family, and in the course of the novel this link is re-established and helps to bring him understanding and peace, although in a most unexpected way.Book Synopsis
Both a meditation on time and memory and a poignant depiction of family life in Ireland, Time Present and Time Past was a finalist for the Orange Prize and was described as "outstanding" by the Irish Independent.
Ireland, 2006. The economic miracle known as the Celtic Tiger has swept the country into a euphoria of wealth and transformation. But for forty-seven-year-old Dubliner Fintan Buckley, the race toward progress is also a troubling purge of the past. Fintan feels the rush of time "like a kind of unholy wind," and he begins to experience strange, dreamlike visions. A resonant portrait of a middle-class family in pre-crash Ireland, Deirdre Madden's latest novel "is a reminder that we'd do best...to savor what we can of those passing moments Eliot called the 'still point of the turning world'" (New York Times Book Review).
"Beautifully written, Time Present and Time Past gently invites us to consider the shifting patterns of time."-The Scotsman
Review Quotes
"A deeply moving portrait of domestic and family life." --- Sunday Telegraph "An outstanding book." -- Irish Independent "The book is beautifully written and gently invites us to consider the shifting patterns of time.' -- The Scotsman
A deeply moving portrait of domestic and family life. Sunday Telegraph
An outstanding book. Irish Independent
The book is beautifully written and gently invites us to consider the shifting patterns of time.' The Scotsman"
About the Author
Born in Ireland in 1960, Deidre Madden studied at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of East Anglia. She is the author of nine novels, including The Birds of Innocent Wood, which won the Somerset Maugham Prize, One by One in the Afternoon, and Molly Fox's Birthday, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Paris.