The Star Factory

by Ciaran Carson

Book Overview

An account of growing up in Belfast and diving down the wormhole of memory into the parallel universes where religion, politics and the sad magic of dying shipyards take manifold forms. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862071179
• ISBN13: 9781862071179
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.8" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Magical prose

I was led to this book via Partickane's list of contemporary Irish literature on .... Partially a memoir, partially a meditation on language and history, and not quite like anything I have ever read before. Carson's prose style is lyrical, melodic and absolutely engaging without being in the least showy.

A masterful playground of language and memory

As unlikely as the link may seem, Cairan Carson is to Belfast and traditional Irish music what Nathanial Mackey is to California and jazz.Carson's memoire of life as an adolescent in Belfast is ripe ground for etymological meanderings in an out of English and Irish. He dally's with Catholic dogma and sources whose only connective thread is his passing interest in them.The Star Factory is an internal play of language, image and memory that gives spunk to the genre and good craic to the reader.