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Title | : | The Heart's Invisible Furies |
Author | : | John Boyne |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 582 pages |
Published | : | August 22nd 2017 by Hogarth Press (first published February 9th 2017) |
Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. LGBT. Cultural. Ireland. Literary Fiction. Audiobook |
John Boyne
Hardcover | Pages: 582 pages Rating: 4.47 | 60898 Users | 8729 Reviews
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Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he?Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.
At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from – and over his three score years and ten, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much more.
In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.
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Original Title: | The Heart's Invisible Furies |
ISBN: | 1524760781 (ISBN13: 9781524760786) |
Edition Language: | English |
Setting: | Ireland |
Literary Awards: | Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (2018), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2017), Book of the Month Book of the Year Award (2017), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2019) |
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Ratings: 4.47 From 60898 Users | 8729 ReviewsJudgment About Books The Heart's Invisible Furies
Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoleague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in the parish of Goleen, west C ork, and denounced my mother as a whore. I imagine I must have been under some sort of a curse for the last sixteen years or so. How else to explain that I just finished reading my first John Boyne novel. Must be the luck of the Irish, well theUpdate: If by some crazy reason you have missed this book....its a $1.99 kindle special today. I actually have a phone call to make to make sure a friend buys it today. Not a book to hesitate buying it at this price if youve not taken your turn reading it yet. A PHENOMENAL READ!!!!I finished this seconds ago.... THE BEST NOVEL of 2017......It's not only a FAVORITE-FAVORITE....It makes my top 10 BEST BOOKS in at least the last 5 or 6 years!!!! PHENOMENAL- long - lush perfectly escapist read!!!!I
So it's my last review of 2017, and my year in books has ended pretty much as it began with an excellent 5 star read. John Boyne is a truly gifted writer and 'The Heart's Invisible Furies' is simply mesmerising.Cyril Avery was born out of wedlock to 16 year old Catherine Coggins. Because of this, Catherine is banished from the small Irish Community where she's lived all her life. This is 1940's Ireland where Catholic priests very much ruled their communities. Publicly denounced as a whore by the
5 Absolutely Brilliant Amazing Stars. Unforgettable, Heartbreaking and Humorous. In The Hearts Invisible Furies, John Boyne takes us on the journey of Cyril Averys life. His loves and losses, his heartbreaks and his triumphs. He makes you laugh out loud hysterically and cry just as often. John Boyne makes you fall in love with every single character in this brilliant novel. Cyril, his best friend Julian Woodbead, Julians sister Alice, Bastiaan and Ignaac. After finishing it, my heart was full.
This book starts with a young girl being kicked out of her church because she is pregnant. The church and her family toss her out and she heads off to Dublin. On reading the first bit of this story I thought everyone five starring this book had lost their minds...it wasn't bad but I was not turning pages very fast. (Partly due to being sucked into the Netflix void called Wentworth..not sorry)Then the baby is born and we meet Cyril...and then I began to understand the rave reviews.Cyril is given
Oh my, is it all downhill from here?? This is my first novel of the year, and Im afraid it may well be my top read of 2019! Yes, it is that special.This is my first experience with John Boyne, and I am so pleased that he has written ten other books for me to explore. How can this novel be summed up in a nutshell? Well, it is just not possible. Which is a good thing. Read the blurb, then settle in for a treat. This is Cyrils storyfrom the age of 7 to 70. It is also, in a lesser way, Irelands
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