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S'està carregant… The Divine Ryans (1990)de Wayne Johnston
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Very amusing book that ties hockey to Catholicism in ways I had never before imagined. (  ) likecymbeline | Apr 1, 2017 |  Charming, funny. grichard48 | Apr 28, 2013 | This won the first Thomas Head Raddell Award for the best Atlantic Canadian adult fiction in 1991. Set in St. John’s Newfoundland during the 1966-’67 hockey season, it centres on Draper Doyle Ryan, age 9, and the extended family in his home. They are known throughout St. John’s as the Divine Ryans because there were so many priests and nuns in the family. Our last family reunion, Uncle Reginald said, was known to the rest of the world as Vatican II. His father died recently and Draper Doyle is seeing his ‘ghost’. Not to fear: the ghost is not the least bit supernatural, but rather psychological. Draper Doyle has “lost” a week of his life around his father’s death and funeral, and over this winter, in long talks with his Uncle Reginald, he (& we) discover the truth of what happened that week. The Divine Ryans is a warm, funny and moving book about a boy’s coming to terms with his father’s death, and with his place in his family. I highly recommend it. Read this if: just read it. 5 stars (  ) ParadisePorch | Dec 7, 2012 | I have mixed feelings about this book. It has one of the funniest beginnings I've ever read, but it somehow does not sustain the zest and freshness it promises. Having said that, it provides an interesting window into Newfoundland and Canada of the mid 20th century. I feel richer for reading it, but wish that it was somehow different. ( ) bojanfurst | Apr 30, 2009 | A great book that tells the story of the Ryan Family, strict aunts, nuns, the family funeral home, and the ghost of a young boy's father. (  ) thokar | Jun 6, 2006 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
From the author ofThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams, "An absolute stunner--achingly funny, needle-sharp, and packing an unexpected wallop...the literary equivalent of a small-budget movie masterpiece with heart, soul, and brains"(Time Out). The Ryans of St. John's, Newfoundland, are a large and deeply eccentric Irish-Catholic family in the dual business of newspaper-publishing and undertaking--"one-hundred years of digging up dirt of one kind or another," as Uncle Reginald puts it. Enough Ryans also become priests and nuns to earn them the sobriquet "Divine." The youngest member of the family is nine-year-old Draper Doyle Ryan, whose passion for the Catholic Montreal Canadiens in their battles against the Protestant Toronto Maple Leafs is matched only by his perplexity over his recently deceased father's regular reappearances, hockey puck in hand, in the house next door. How he comes to make sense of these visitations, his gently screwy relatives, and his own burgeoning sexuality forms the matter of this droll, wise, and effortlessly funny coming-of-age novel. Soon to be a major motion picture from the producer of Love and Death on Long Island, and starring Oscar®-nominee Pete Postlethwaite. From the Trade Paperback edition. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.54 — Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (3.67)
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