UCD academic Áine Mahon on Eggshells by Caitriona Lally: ‘a delightful debut’
In Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells we meet Vivian – nine tenths fictional creation and one tenth our own personality. Vivian is independent, creative, brave. She lives alone in Dublin in what was once her...
View ArticleReview: Eggshells, by Caitriona Lally: full of action and humour
In his analysis of the works of James Joyce, the novelist, linguist and literary critic Anthony Burgess maintained that there are two types of novels – those focused on the world at large, with plot...
View ArticleEggshells by Caitriona Lally: ‘priceless thoughts on words and the world’
I sometimes show up to my book club without my homework: I’ve decided I only have time for books worth every moment spent on them. From the first page of Eggshells, I knew it was worth its word count...
View ArticleAnna McPartlin on Barbara Cartland, Enid Blyton and the Barrytown Trilogy
What was the first book to make an impression on you? The first book to really make an impression on me as a teenager was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was like the curtain was being pulled back,...
View ArticleAnthony Glavin on Eggshells by Caitriona Lally: a novel that keeps its promises
I’ll confess it was with fingers crossed that I opened Caitriona Lally’s beguiling debut novel, Eggshells, of which I had previously seen the first 10,000 words as one of three judges for the Irish...
View ArticleCaitriona Lally on Eggshells: The Irish Times Book Club podcast
The Irish Times Book Club’s in-depth look at Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells reaches its climax with a podcast in which the author reads a passage from her debut novel and discusses...
View ArticleCaitriona Lally on writing Eggshells: from the dole to a debut novel
In the summer of 2014, I got word that Liberties Press was interested in publishing my first novel, Eggshells. Three years previously, I had kept notebooks to record conversations I’d overheard on...
View ArticleKetil Bjornstad: ‘The novel is the best weapon against multi-tasking’
Ketil Bjornstad is a Norwegian pianist, composer and author. ketilbjornstad.com What was the first book to make an impression on you? It must have been Saint Exupéry, The little Prince. My father read...
View ArticleEggshells by Caitriona Lally is new Irish Times Book Club choice
Eggshells by Caitriona Lally, described by Declan Kiberd as “a fairy tale of contemporary Dublin, edgy and eloquent, a remarkable debut”, is the new Irish Times Book Club choice. Over the next four...
View ArticleFilm review: Madame Bovary fails to make emotional connection
Reviewer rating: Rating: 3 out of 5 stars ★★★ When Gustave Flaubert's first novel came out in 1856, there was a very French reaction – they put the language of the book on trial. The ostensible charge...
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Dir: Sophie Barthes. UK-Belgium. 2014. 118mins Gustave Flaubert’s once scandalous 1856 novel has defeated many an experienced director from Vincente Minnelli to Claude Chabrol. In only her second...
View Article'Hausfrau' Strips Down Its Modern-Day Madame Bovary
7:11 AM ET Lynn Neary Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approximately 12:00 p.m. ET. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum Hardcover, 320 pages | purchase Purchase...
View ArticleThe Stacks: William Styron was Lit’s Big Game Hunter
A white southerner by birth, Styron scorned the label of regional author—the world was his territory and the bigger the subject the better, from American slavery to the Holocaust. When Philip Caputo...
View ArticleMadame Bovary's malaise and the feminine mystique
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View ArticleDavid Bowie's list of 100 favorite books reveal his true inner nerd
We all know David Bowie as a music and pop culture icon. But if you are hoping looking for a crash course in must-read literature, look no further than Bowie's 100 favorite books. Bowie's list is as...
View ArticleGemma Bovary presents a new recipe for Madame Bovary
Audiences may know Gemma Arterton as the Bond girl in Quantum of Solace or Gretel in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters but the British actress’s repertoire expands past action films to the classics. In...
View ArticleEggshells by Caitriona Lally review – a daring debut
An eccentric outsider roams around Dublin in an inventive and moving debut...
View Article'Madame Bovary' returns to speak to modern condition in two distinct films
It would seem unlikely that a story about a 19th century young French woman escaping her marriage and tedious provincial life by embarking on scandalous affairs would have much appeal to 21st century...
View ArticleWriters pick the best books of 2014: part 2
From Britain’s brilliantly inventive Ali Smith to America’s master storyteller Richard Ford, from Michael Lewis’s cautionary tale of Wall Street renegades to Henry Marsh’s candid account of...
View ArticleMia Wasikowska's ‘Madame Bovary’ Seduces U.S. Distributor Millennium...
Millennium Entertainment has�acquired U.S. distribution rights to�Sophie Barthes’ drama “Madame�Bovary,” which stars Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans,�Ezra Miller and Logan Marshall-Green. The...
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