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The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth

by Adrian Duncan

  

€ 16.25 

ISBN: 9781805221944

AN IRISH INDEPENDENT AND IRISH TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025

'An original voice' Colm Toibin

'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish Times

'A deliberative and delicate reading experience, revelatory in the truest sense of that word' Guardian

During winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life.

Years later, a letter from home arrives, asking him to pray for the speedy death of an ailing friend. Over a day-long odyssey through the ancient streets and churches of Bologna, John is forced to confront his present, his past and the bedrock of his psyche. A delicately crafted novel of two halves, a decade apart, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth is a masterful excavation of human desires, inhibitions, and the patterns of habit to which we unwittingly fall prey.

224 pages.

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Date of Publication: 30/01/2025

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