by M. J. Hyland · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841959061
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Carry Me Down» is M. J. Hyland's literary fiction novel, published by Canongate Books in paperback (in English).
Set in Ireland in 1971, it follows John Egan, a twelve-year-old boy with the rare ability to know when adults are lying. Convinced that this gift will make him famous, he writes to the Guinness Book of Records; his obsession with the truth ends up destabilizing his family.
A finalist for the Booker Prize in 2006, it won the Hawthornden Prize and the RSL Encore Award.
For readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age novels.
Maria Joan Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three novels: How the Light Gets In (2004), Carry Me Down (2006) and This Is How (2009). Hyland is a lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Centre for New Writing. Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Hawthornden Prize and the Encore Prize.
