The Pen Friend
- Authors
- Carson, Ciaran
- Publisher
- Blackstaff Press
- Tags
- love , 1940 , zamenhof , tate modern , municipal gallery , merlin pen , notebooks , civil rights , perfume. onoto , bombs , blackbird , lists , paris , collectors , christian , billie holiday , opium , v&a , city , acme , railways , paranormal , andy warhol. auden , empire state building , catholic , vintage clothing , ann street , grand central terminal , crown bar , church lane , fountain pen. memories , pens , carlisle circus , watches , museum , antrim , romance , esterbrook , french , clifton street , berlin , belfast , pentel rollerball , guns , waterman’s , aura , vermeer , croxley , barkston , stamps , john lavery , dubliners , memory , earls court , postmark , joyce , trilby , new york , daylight raid , dreams , avedon , bbc , vision , elsinore garden , conway stewart , stamp , goligher circle , porte-plume , gerard dillon , the troubles , ira , crown entry , national gallery of ireland , victoria and albert , bullets , bahnhof friedrichstrasse , gloomy sunday , london , gemini , two dutchmen and two courtesans , ireland , lady writing a letter with her maid , esperanto , antrim road , swan , psychic , exodus , clapham , cigarettes , france , lee miller , dior , smithfield market , wasp clipper , bible , north street
- ISBN
- 9780856401053
- Date
- 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.39 MB
- Lang
- en
'More than twenty years after the end of their love affair, Gabriel receives an unexpected and cryptic postcard from his old flame.It is the first of thirteen cards from her, each one provoking a series of reveries about their relationship and prompting Gabriel to write a letter to his ex-lover in which he dwells in sensuous detail on perfumes, clothes, conversations as he tries to recapture the spirit of their romance in 1980s Belfast. The Pen Friend is, however, much more than a love story. As Gabriel teases out the significance of the cards, the layers of meaning in the images and messages, his reveries develop into richly textured meditations on writing, memory, spiritualism and surveillance. The result is an elaborate and intricate web of fact and fiction, a narrative that marries sharp historical insights with imaginative exuberance, a strange and wonderful novel confirming Ciaran Carson a son of Ireland's most exciting writers.