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The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth

The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth

Duncan, Adrian

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ISBN10: 1805221949
ISBN13: 9781805221944
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: Sep 2 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
AN IRISH INDEPENDENT AND IRISH TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025

In this moving new novel, award-winning Irish writer Adrian Duncan explores love and grief while finding their resonance in works of art


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.

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