000			01830nam a22002537a 4500
003			OSt
005			20240715140521.0
008			240702b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a978-1-7820-6207-3
040			_cAKCL
082			_a823.92 _bLYN-B
100			_aLynch, Paul
245			_aThe Black Snow / _cby Paul Lynch
260			_aLondon: _bQuercus Editions Ltd., _c2015
300			_ap.265
520			_aThe startling novel from a brilliant young Irish novelist on the rise, who "has a sensational gift for a sentence" (Colum McCann on Red Sky in Morning ). In Donegal in the spring of 1945, a farmhand runs into a burning barn and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of his cattle are destroyed in the blaze. Following the disaster, the bull-headed and proudly self-sufficient Barnabas is forced to reach out to the community for assistance. But resentment simmers over the farmhand's death, and Barnabas and his family begin to believe their efforts at recovery are being sabotaged. Barnabas is determined to hold firm. Yet his teenage son struggles under the weight of a terrible secret, and his wife is suffocated by the uncertainty surrounding their future. As Barnabas fights ever harder for what is rightfully his, his loved ones are drawn ever closer to a fate that should never have been theirs. In The Black Snow , Paul Lynch takes the pastoral novel and -- with the calmest of hands -- tears it apart. With beautiful, haunting prose, Lynch illuminates what it means to live through crisis, and puts to the test our deepest certainties about humankind.
650			_aLiterature
650			_aEnglish Literature
650			_aEnglish Fiction
650			_aEnglish Novel
942			_cBK
942			_2ddc
942			_2ddc _n0
999			_c38666 _d38666