Leonard and Hungry Paul de Ronan Hession

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Leonard and Hungry Paul (2019 original; edició 2021)

de Ronan Hession (Autor)

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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:A disarming novel that asks a simple question: Can gentle people change the world? In this charming and truly unique debut, popular Irish musician Ronan Hession tells the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents and who are . . . nice. They take care of their parents and play board games together. They like to read. They take satisfaction from their work. They are resolutely kind. And they realize that none of this is considered . . . normal. Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends struggling to protect their understanding of what�??s meaningful in life. It is about the uncelebrated people of this world �?? the gentle, the meek, the humble. And as they struggle to persevere, the book asks a surprisingly enthralling question: Is it really them against the world, or are they on to some… (més)

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Membre:	gregtaylor
Títol:	Leonard and Hungry Paul
Autors:	Ronan Hession (Autor)
Informació:	Melville House (2021), 256 pages
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Oh God, I'm the only person on the entire planet who didn't enjoy this book. I didn't believe in Leonard, I didn't believe in Hungry Paul or his smug family. I didn't believe in the competition that Hungry Paul enters, or the way the worthy hospital visits pan out. I didn't believe in those long articulate monologues delivered by Hungry Paul, then Leonard. I didn't believe in a single stilted conversation between any of the book's protagonists. My first instinct was to junk it after the first fifty pages. But I persisted, and finally I did warm - a little bit - to this gentle pair of friends, satisfied with so little. But really .... I could take it or leave it. My loss, obviouly, as so many people seem to have loved this book. Just - not me. (

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Margaret09 | Apr 15, 2024 |

Novel about two male friends who are nearly beyond kind. How they stay true to themselves and live their lives. (

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37143Birnbaum | Mar 9, 2024 |

A very quiet and nice book with nice people and their struggles in life. (

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kakadoo202 | Jul 26, 2023 |

Cheers to all the quiet people.
I found this absolutely delightful, with a few minor quibbles that don't undermine the quality of the ideas. Full of subtle intelligence that seems to be overlooked.
It would be better if it abandoned the twee bits and went fully unconventional, as I think those buried the subtle intelligence for some people. Of course they would probably hate the book I imagine, but I'd love it. (

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Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |

Amazing. So many life lessons needed by so many people. (

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Books Are My Bag Readers Award (Llista curta – Ficció – 2019)

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Irish Book Award (Nominat – Newcomer – 2019)

Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (Llista curta – 2020)

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Leonard

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This book is dedicated to Kathleen Smyth, for your brave and beautiful heart.

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Leonard was raised by his mother alone with cheerfully concealed difficulty, his father having died tragically during childbirth.

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... her neatness being a sign of her respect for the small things in her life.

... his mother looked after everyone in her life as though they were her garden birds: that is to say, with unconditional pleasure and generosity.

He found book shops to be comforting places and book buying a comforting activity, but he was an absent-minded reader these days, the act of reading that much more solitary without his mother pottering around the house in the background.

The job suited him as he was interested in pretty much everything interesting, and he preferred to play a minor part in someone else's story rather than being his own star.

Hungry Paul lived on a knife edge between a passion for board games and an aversion to instruction booklets.

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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:A disarming novel that asks a simple question: Can gentle people change the world?

In this charming and truly unique debut, popular Irish musician Ronan Hession tells the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents and who are . . . nice. They take care of their parents and play board games together. They like to read. They take satisfaction from their work. They are resolutely kind. And they realize that none of this is considered . . . normal.

Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends struggling to protect their understanding of what�??s meaningful in life. It is about the uncelebrated people of this world �?? the gentle, the meek, the humble. And as they struggle to persevere, the book asks a surprisingly enthralling question: Is it really them against the world, or are they on to some

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