Add

Activity

Profile

Welcome to Litsy!

Litsy is a place to share and discover your favorite books with your favorite people.

Litsy is available on the web, for iOS and Android.

It’s fun.  It’s simple.  It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy.

Create Account

To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more.

This page is: Hidden

Trending Hashtags

#wintergames2024

57 users recently

#20in4

51 users recently

#BookSpinBingo

69 users recently

#HolidayBookDragons

37 users recently

#AuldLangSpine

17 users recently

#bookspin

86 users recently

Trending Books

Untitled

63 users recently

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

6 users recently

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings

Shel Silverstein

7 users recently

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin

Julia Finley Mosca

6 users recently

Esperanza Rising

Pam Munoz Ryan

5 users recently

Authenticity | Deirdre Madden

2 posts | 1 read | 1 to read

After a brilliant youth, the painter Roderic Kennedy's life has been overtaken by a series of crises - alcoholism, the failure of his marriage to an Italian woman, and estrangement from his three daughters following his return to Ireland. When he meets Julia Fitzpatrick, twenty years younger than he and also an artist, it seems as if this period of turbulence and misfortune from which he has been struggling to emerge is at an end. But when Julia then meets William Armstrong, a middle-aged lawyer, it sets in motion a chain of events which, in the course of the following year, has dramatic and unforeseen consequences for all three of them. Deirdre Madden's ambitious novel is both a moving love story and a thought-provoking meditation upon the nature of painting. It is above all an exploration of what it means to be an artist in contemporary society.

100%

TheKidUpstairs

Authenticity | Deirdre Madden

pick

Skillfully rendered, thorough, thoughtful exploration of artists, art, and the human connections that sustain us. These characters are multi-dimensional and genuinely human, laid bare in their vulnerabilities and strengths, their foibles, failings, and brief shining moments.

If you don't like non-linear storytelling, this may not be for you. It is more about character and ideas rather than plot... cont'd in comments

TheKidUpstairs the narrative jumps around through the characters' timelines to reveal important moments. It worked beautifully for me, but it could be frustrating if it's not your thing. 5mo

TheKidUpstairs
Madden's writing is exquisite, I can see why she was selected for the Windham Campbell Prize, and I look forward to seeking out more of her work! 5mo

kspenmoll Wonderful review! Stacked. 5mo

squirrelbrain Sounds interesting - stacked! 5mo

55 likes1 stack add4 comments

TheKidUpstairs

Authenticity | Deirdre Madden

"Any advice he might give would be like a book written by someone late in life. Rich in moral experience and subtly expressed, to someone who came to it too young it would seem merely dull, although in the same book the same reader some twenty years later would be astonished to find the story of their whole life."

36 likes