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A sleeper hit when first published in 1986, Jeannette Haien's exquisite, beloved first novel is a deceptively simple story that has the power and resonance of myth. The story begins on a rainy morning as Father Declan de Loughry stands fishing in an Irish salmon stream, pondering the recent deathbed confession of one of his parishioners. Kevin Dennehy and his wife, Enda, have been sweetly living a lie for some 50 years, a lie the full extent of which Father Declan learns only when Enda finally confides "the all of it." Her tale of suffering mesmerizes the priest, who recognizes that it is also a tale of sin and scandal, a transgression he cannot ignore. The resolution of his dilemma is a triumph of strength and empathy that, as Benedict Kiely has said, makes The All of It "a book to remember".
one of the year's finest novels, a moral story of the most complex sort. —Newsweek
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Michael Zexter
reviewed All of It on December 28, 2019
All of It
It seems that the author Jeannette Haien had a successful career as a concert pianist and music teacher and then in her 60s thought oh, I'll write a novel, I suppose, (this one) and it won a prize and people loved it. I bet that will inspire all the unpublished novelists among you. Now you can say to yourselves, oh well, I think I'll be a concert pianist. And at your very first concert you will win a big prize!
In this tiny novel there is a 13 page long description of a guy catching a fish. The guy is a priest and the fish is a symbol.
This was book 6 in my Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge. So far these have been :
A debut novel : this one! (It is also one of the 1000 Books You Must Read so it's a two-fer).
A book you can finish in one day : A Christmas Carol
A "most read" book from Goodreads : Normal People.
A book from a different culture : The Village of Waiting.
A new non-fiction book : American Heiress
A translated novel : Journey to the End of Night
A book with a colour in the title : Golden Hill.
Still to do :
The oldest TBR book on your shelf
A book recommended by a GR friend
A 500 page plus novel
Really this has been a fairly lightweight review, or "review" as I call them. But I've been watching a lot of Booktube videos. Do you know Booktube? It's a subset of Youtube, naturally. These people - not ALL of them Young Adult readers - make 10 to 15 minute videos, ranging from painfully awkward ones done entirely in the person's car, as if the people they live with have banned them from talking about books in the house, to semi-professional stuff including edits and low key visual aids. They're kind of fascinating in a zoned-out mechanically-eating-prawn-crackers kind of way. This one video I saw was about the ten longest surviving to-be-read books on this person's shelf. She explained that these books had been there for years, and they had survived numerous annual culls of books, and yet she still thought she probably wouldn't ever read them. 15 minutes of someone musing about not reading ten books over a period of several years. I was hooked. I could do that. I would talk about the heaviest books I own, and I would weigh them on scales to prove it. I would discuss the ugliest covers of the books on my TBR shelves and wonder if that's what's stopping me reading them. I would describe the hilarious things I have found in books I have bought, such as dead insects and unfinished love poems (true!). It would be so interesting. I should be a booktuber.
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