The Rat-Pit
'A restrained poetic vision overshadowed only by MacGill's passionate hatred of the gombeen men and the grasping Catholic clergy who people its pages' - Sunday Express'Penned with chilling realism, a heartrending transcript from life . . .' - Cork ExaminerSet in the Ireland and Scotland of the early 1900s, and based on real events, The Rat-Pit is the tragic story of Norah Ryan, a devout and intelligent Donegal girl who leaves her homeland after the death of her father hoping to find a better life 'across the water'. Unable to escape the cycle of grinding poverty, Norah's fate is further sealed when she becomes pregnant by Alec Morrison, the s…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85790-283-2
- EAN: 9780857902832
- Produktnummer: 21804476
- Verlag: Birlinn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 453 KB
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Patrick MacGill, known as 'the Navvy Poet' was born in Donegal in 1889. During the First World War he served with the London Irish Rifles and was wounded at Loos in 1915. His novel The Great Push was written as result of his wartime experiences. He emigrated to America with his wife and daughters in 1930 and died in Florida in 1963.
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