I Could Read the Sky

Timothy O'Grady, Steve Pyke

Harvill, 1998 - Fiction - 165 pages

Accompanied by photographs, this novel tells the story of a man's journey from the West of Ireland to the fields/boxing-booths/building sites of England. Now at the century's end, he finds himself alone, struggling to make sense of a life of dislocation and loss.

About the author

Timothy O'Grady was born in Chicago and has lived in Ireland, London, Spain and Poland. He was in Las Vegas after receiving a fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute there and stayed on for another year to teach. He has written three works of non-fiction, Curious Journey, On Golf and, most recently, Divine Magnetic Lands, an account of a return journey around America after thirty years of living in Europe. His novels are Motherland, I Could Read the Sky and Light.

Bibliographic information

• Title: I Could Read the Sky; Harvill Panther
• Authors: Timothy O'Grady, Steve Pyke
• Photographs by: Steve Pyke
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Harvill, 1998
• ISBN: 1860465080, 9781860465086
• Length: 165 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Science / Space Science / Astronomy