At thirty-four, he’s taken a career break from his teaching post at a private school in Dublin to make something of his lifelong obsession with James Joyce.

The river capture is a geographical term where a river is diverted from its own path and flows down into a neighbouring river. Their conversations center around the family's past and the tragedies that characterised the fates of their close relatives. I'll have to get another copy now, and re-read Ulysses too (it must be... nearly 20 years since the last full read), and whilst we're at it, I'm even wondering if this will be the year to, at last, read Finnegans Wake cover-to-cover... Because the River Capture is a book that makes this Joyce fan remember the way his perception of life and literature was irreI realised about 50 pages in, when I went to check on the Joyce-had-syphilis motif, that I no longer have my copy of Ellman's James Joyce. I’m sure it’s a lovely book if you are into Joyce (this is some kind of homage) but I am very much not. The twists and turn meld well together and make this an unusual and interestiLuke is back home living in his ancestral home with his elderly aunt close by. Job done, Ms Costello.I have never read anything by James Joyce, let alone ‘Ulysses’, but now I could almost believe I have, this book is so steeped in references to Joyce’s life and events in his characters’ lives. He is very committed to his family and finds himself facing a hard decision which has a surprising outcome. The other theme of how rivers are formed, deviate, move from underground to overground and how they find their way to sea are compelling. The best part of the book for me was Luke’s obsession with James Joyce and Ulysses. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family's heyday and turns to books for solace.Luke suffers under the same ailment as Oblomov 160 years ago, and like Oblomov, he solves his problems by retreating into himself. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations A tour de force about the passion of the soul and the grandeur of nature. The novel’s very gentle crisis comes when Luke falls for Ruth and it emerges that her late father ruined his beloved Aunt Ellen’s reputation.I realised about 50 pages in, when I went to check on the Joyce-had-syphilis motif, that I no longer have my copy of Ellman's James Joyce. In a novel that pays glorious homage to Joyce, The River Capture tells of one man's descent into near madness and the possibility of rescue.

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In both novels, the lives of the central characters are dictated by traumatic events – more specifically, deaths in the family and the feckless actions of men. That and that the turning point of the books seems a bit much, it really never recovered from that for me. The lives of the characters in this novel are also distracted or diverted from their original path by tragedy, deceit or coincidence. I wasn’t disappointed.This was a beautifully written book, engaging from the start.

Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold.Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Without a doubt, it is unlike anything I have read before. This isn't that. But everything thaI find this difficult to rate, much as I found it difficult to decide whether to finish it or not. Loved the anecdotes about Joyce and NoraAbandoning this one. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I did not know this term until after I’d finished Mary Costello’s book.

He's taken a break from his teaching career in Dublin to try to write a book about Joyce but instead he's idled the time away.

Anyway, considering the title and that it is set in the Irish Countryside I was hoping for some nature wrThis is well written and maybe deserves a higher rating because of that, but it didn't deliver on other things that I was hoping for. There is a real sense of Costello’s development as a writer here, something that leaves me excited to see what she produces next…Luke O'Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane.

I spent almost more time researching Joyce and Leopold Bloom than I did reading the pages of this novel. He returns to Ardboe House, his family pile to look after his innocent Aunt Josie who has special needs and is dying. But will he let her into his closed life?Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App.

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