AN IRISH INDEPENDENT AND IRISH TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025
'An original voice' Colm Tóibín
'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish Times
During winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmatic Italian sociologist. As John falls in love, a distressing moment from his youth rises into view, the disastrous fallout of which has reverberated unchecked through his life.
Years later, a letter from home arrives, asking him to pray for the speedy death of an ailing friend. Over a day-long odyssey through the ancient streets and churches of Bologna, John is forced to confront his present, his past and the bedrock of his psyche. A delicately crafted novel of two halves, a decade apart, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth is a masterful excavation of human desires, inhibitions, and the patterns of habit to which we unwittingly fall prey.
- ISBN10 1805221949
- ISBN13 9781805221944
- Publish Date 30 January 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Profile Books Ltd
- Imprint Tuskar Rock
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English