[ebooktalk] Re: "Strumpet City" by James Plunkett
- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:57 +0100
Please send it Pele - it has been on my wanted list for sometime.
Steve
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Subject: [ebooktalk] "Strumpet City" by James Plunkett
Hi Everyone
Those of you on another list will know that I have been trying to get a copy
of "Strumpet City" by James Plunkett, as I think it is a terrific book.
There is an RNIB Talking Book version read by Robert Gladwell, but he
struggles with the Irish accent and sounds as though he has to take a run at
every sentence.
Today Shell has found me a .txt copy, which is great.
Below is a synopsis. If anyone wants it, I can send it to the list.
Strumpet City by James Plunkett
Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, Strumpet City is a panoramic novel
of city life. It embraces a wide range of social milieux, from the miseries
of the tenements to the cultivated, bourgeois Bradshaws. It introduces a
memorable cast of characters: the main protagonist, Fitz, a model of the
hard-working, loyal and abused trade unionist; the isolated, well-meaning
and ineffectual Fr O'Connor; the wretched and destitute Rashers Tierney. In
the background hovers the enormous shadow of Jim Larkin, Plunkett's
real-life hero. Strumpet City's popularity derives from its realism and its
naturalistic presentation of traumatic historical events. There are clear
heroes and villains. The book is informed by a sense of moral outrage at the
treatment of the locked-out trade unionists, the indifference and evasion of
the city's clergy and middle class and the squalor and degradation of the
tenement slums.
Pele
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