Consider how various pieces of art prompt crucial plot points in Orchid The Wasp. Gael’s “restaurant outburst,” for instance, is triggered by Louis le Brocquy’s “Figures in Moonlight,” and Guthrie’s paintings are the driving force behind Gael’s money-making scheme. Written in electric, heart-stopping prose, Orchid the Wasp is a dazzlingly original novel about gigantic ambitions and social upheaval, chewing through sexuality, class and politics with joyful, anarchic fury, announcing Caoilinn Hughes as a rising star of literary fiction/5(79). CAOILINN HUGHES is an Irish writer whose novel Orchid the Wasp (Hogarth ) won the Collyer Bristow Prize, and whose poetry collection Gathering Evidence (Carcanet ) won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award. For her short fiction, she won an www.doorway.ru Prize and the Moth International Short Story Prize /5(83).
Orchid the Wasp is a dark but highly amusing coming-of-age story, which encompasses sexuality, mental health, class, religion and contemporary politics. The prose is vivid and its characters leap off the page, grabbing you by the scruff, but none more so than our furious, artful, spunky heroine, Gael Foess. Written in electric, heart-stopping prose, Orchid the Wasp is a dazzlingly original novel about gigantic ambitions and social upheaval, chewing through sexuality, class and politics with joyful, anarchic fury, announcing Caoilinn Hughes as a rising star of literary fiction. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review.
"Caoilinn Hughes is the real thing - an urgent, funny, painstaking and heartfelt writer. Orchid the Wasp is a startling debut full of the moral complexity, grief and strange bewilderments of humanity. As the world spins ever more quickly in response to the demands of grifters, parasites and liars, this book offers a troubling, beautiful and wise response.". The promotional literature that came with “Orchid and the Wasp,” a début novel by Caoilinn Hughes, cited the book as this year’s “Conversations with Friends,” a reference to the lucent. www.doorway.ru: Orchid The Wasp () by Caoilinn Hughes and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
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