If Faha isn't for everybody, then neither, frankly, is Williams' novel, delivered in the pensive voice of a man in his 70s recalling his youth. He had grown up in an age when storytelling was founded on the forthright principles of passing the time and dissolving the hours of dark.”For those lulled into the rhythm of Williams’ storytelling there is understated and undeclared love on every page of this book. I love Irish writers (looking at you Maggie O’Farrell and John Boyne!) It was a time when real love came into his life, and not out of the seminarian’s missal.As we get older, we return to those earlier years of our lives. The latter Williams describes through the eyes of Doady, Noe’s grandmother:“My grandmother … understood the tightrope balance they had sustained for nearly half a century, a topsy-turvy way of living they had made up on the model of their own parents and grandparents, which had survived the rearing of a dozen tearaway sons in four rooms in a drowned place on the far margin of the world, where belts could be tightened or loosened as needs be, and without anyone’s say-so but your own.

A week ago I had no idea who Niall Williams was but after this I’m sure I will not forgetting him for the rest of my life. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Lots of amusing parts but a bit long-winded and repetitive and sometimes too melodramatic for my taste. Full disclosure, I have a thing for the Irish culture (writing, music, humor) and this novel really speaks to me. He has a past relationship to reconcile involving Annie, the local chemist.

“Of course, I do. Williams, with his gorgeous prose and his Irish wit, managed to transport me out of COVID 19 lock-down, to Faha, Ireland, in the late 1950s! This guy has a way with words, unquestionably. Change isn't something that the population are keen to embrace, these people are used to being damp and cold, having limited hours of light and are made of stoic stuff. In the bright sunny days of summer I plan to return to Faha.I really enjoyed the start of this book but lost interest and gave up over half way through. Haunted by the slow death of his mother, Noe has recently withdrawn from seminary, "not exactly in disgrace," he says, but terrified he might never "discover what it meant to live a fully human life." The book is hilarious among its many other virtues. Even if it did rain incessantly in all its multitudinous forms almost all of the time, a rain that shapes location and its inhabitants. The descriptions of characters, scenery, etc is very detailed, most sentences are the length of a paragraph. This was the time when electricity was finally coming to town, as was young Noel Crowe. “This is Happiness,” Bloomsbury Publishing, by Niall Williams“This Is Happiness” is a breathtaking tale told through the eyes of Noel, or Noe, Crowe. Science fiction godfather Ray Bradbury said th...Niall Williams writes a joyous ode to Ireland, its landscape, and to family and community roots in this lyrical coming of age novel set in the rural village of Faha in County Clare. Nothing is more Irish than the central place of the Catholic Church, and true to this, in Faha its life blood is St Cecilia's Church, and Father Coffey refuses all opportunites to move, so deep is he embedded in Faha and to Fahaeans.Niall Williams is as Irish as an author can be. Nominally, he’s come to Faha to work on the electrification of the village, but actually he’s returned to make amends to a woman he wronged 50 years ago.

I've watched Martha dump sugar and fThis writing is so rich that I found myself immediately relating to it as food. Years later, looking back on Christy, he notes that the man “walked this line between the comic and poignant, between the certainly doomed and the hopelessly hopeful.” Surely, he’s describing his own precarious position, too. There were so many gorgeous turns of phrase that drew me in, however, the following are my absolute favorites:I adored this book. He had left the seminary a short time before to go and be with his nan and grandad.Interesting 'roman de terroir' about Western Ireland in the 1970's when many villages did not have electricity yet and the catholic church was the all-powerful ruler of society. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.

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