TWO LAUNCHES FOR JOYRIDE TO JUPITER

DUBLIN:

GALWAY: New Island Books  requests the pleasure of your company to celebrate the Galway launch of  Joyride to Jupiter  by Nuala O'Connor   on Friday, June 16th at 7.00pm, in the Rosie McGurran Gallery and Studio, Roundstone, Galway. Guest speaker: Artist Gavin Lavelle  Please email info@newisland.ie or call 01 – 2784225 to RSVP. Praise for Nuala O'Connor ‘These stories - from a writer of immense talent - are a joy to read.' – Sinéad Gleeson 'A gifted and ambitious artist.' – Mike McCormack ‘Nuala O’Connor’s luminous prose has long been one of Ireland’s most treasured literary secrets’ – Dermot Bolger A heartbroken man deals with his wife’s Alzheimer’s as best he can. The Jesus of O’Connell Street reflects on his situation, which isn’t half bad. A too-young girl witnesses her father’s shocking infidelity. A quiet murder on a riverbank. Imperfect lovers and unlikely friends thwart and bolster each other as they act out their dramas on the beaches of Brazil, in the bedrooms of Dublin, and in the wilds of North America. With prose both lyrical and profound, the award-winning Nuala O’Connor writes of maternal love and cross-generational friendship but here, also, are stories of ageing, suicide, and the buoyancy of new love. In these urgent, humane stories of ill-advised couplings, loneliness and burgeoning hope, we find O’Connor’s trademark humour and sensuality, and the quest for longed-for truths. A truly stunning collection by one of Ireland’s finest writers.

Nuala O’Connor (AKA Nuala Ní Chonchúir) was born in Dublin and lives in East Galway. A novelist, short story writer and poet, she is the author of three novels, including Miss Emily(Penguin USA/Canada, Sandstone (UK)), about the poet Emily Dickinson and her Irish maid, five short story collections, and four collections of poetry. Miss Emily was shortlisted for the Novel of the Year award at the 2015 Irish Book Awards, and longlisted for the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Nuala’s fourth novel, Becoming Belle, is published in 2018.