Deirdre Madden (1) (1960–)
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- Fødselsdato
- 1960-08-20
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- Ireland
- Fødested
- Toomebridge, County Antrim, Ireland
- Bopæl
- Toomebridge, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
France
Italy - Uddannelse
- Trinity College, Dublin
University of East Anglia
St Mary's Grammar School - Erhverv
- writer
- Organisationer
- University College Cork (Writer-in-Residence)
Trinity College, Dublin (Writer Fellow) - Agent
- Derek Johns (AP Watt)
Medlemmer
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One by One in Darkness by Deirdre Madden i Orange January/July (august 2011)
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- Værker
- 11
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- 3
- Medlemmer
- 754
- Popularitet
- #33,729
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 77
- ISBN
- 83
- Sprog
- 6
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- 1
Over the course of a day, we're taken through years of relationships and history as the protagonist reveals her memories like a colour linocut. True feelings are hinted at just beneath the surface. There are lots of thinking and monologues but it never stagnates. There are some of my favourite archetype characters like the Illusive Successful Chameleon Friend and the Academic Aesthete, and the semi/less-successful Outsider who forms an unlikely relationship with them and catalogues it all. In a lesser writer, I would've rolled my eyes, but Madden elevates it all.
Even now as Madden subtly establishes herself as one of my potential faves, I struggle to pinpoint her elusive mastery. But mastery it really is, and I'll have to start expanding my Madden collection.… (mere)