[ebooktalk] Re: "Strumpet City" by James Plunkett
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:40:26 +0100
sounds like it might be just up my alley Pele.
On 17 Jun 2013, at 11:21, Pele West wrote:
> 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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