Best Love, Rosie
by Nuala O'Faolain
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Pub Date Mar 17 2010 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
Final novel from beloved Irish writer, "Best Love, Rosie...is the book of my years of commuting between the melancholy of Ireland and the optimism of America." -Nuala O'Faolain
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Like many a modern, well-travelled woman, Rosie has lived a fascinating life, full of adventure and the pleasure of many lovers in her younger years. Now, facing the challenges of middle-age, she finds that the things that defined her most-work, love, independence-begin to fail her. She comes home to Ireland to care for her elderly aunt Min, trapped by circumstances in sleepy Dublin. But when an opportunity arises to visit New York again, the story takes an unexpected turn...
Published to rave reviews in France (Sabine Wespieser, Editeur), Best Love, Rosie became an instant bestseller in Ireland, where it was published to mark the first anniversary of Nuala's death. Rosie gives us one last bittersweet look through those fierce eyes at aging, death, relationships and, as always, love.
Nuala O'Faolain was an Irish journalist, TV producer, book reviewer, teacher and author. She became internationally well-known for her two volumes of memoir, Are You Somebody? and Almost There as well as a novel, My Dream of You, all featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Praise for Are You Somebody?
"This book has to be read" - The New York Times
"An extraordinary memoir, beautifully written" - Roddy Doyle
"A rich, fierce memoir..." - New Yorker
"A remarkable memoir, poignant, truthful, imparting that quiet wisdom which suffering brings" -Edna O'Brien
Advance Praise
"This is a rich, frank and heartening novel. It is an excursion and an education; a long, luxurious wander through a library of bold, beautiful and inimitable things. It is vintage Nuala, one last time."
-Belinda McKeon, The Sunday Irish Times
"Everyone feels like they knew Nuala. And it is impossible to separate Nuala from the novel -- the similarities with both Rosie and Min are most definitely there -- which makes reading it a very strange experience. The way she brought the D-word into our national conversation -- how she laid bare her life and death in an attempt to better understand society and the way the world worked -- was not always easy to take. However, her novels are, and it is rather comforting to have one last bittersweet journey with Nuala."
-Independent.ie
"...Rosie generally wears her learning, and her philosophy, and her spirituality, lightly. The novel succeeds in blending the deep and the shallow, the wise and the mildly absurd, in a series of seamless transitions from kitchen to library, frocks to philosophy, body to mind.
Stylistically, it is chatty and personable. The slight tension engendered by the contrast of serious theme and light form may well be the result of deliberate authorial intention...But the mixture of the light and the serious is undoubtedly also brought about by the author's own attitude to life. O'Faolain was brilliant, educated, deeply thoughtful, but she was down to earth and despised pretension. So does her book. That is its great charm, and that is why it resists categorisation. There will be no ready made niche for it in the bookshop.
It is just Nuala."
-Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, The Irish Times
"The powerful, overriding message in this time- challenging tale of Min and Rosie is actually a simple one: we are only ever trapped in our own heads, not our bodies -- no matter how old they are. And so we must grab our chances while we have them, live in the now and put our best heart forward. Always.
Who else to sum it all up then, than Nuala O'Faolain herself -- in the optimistic words with which she concludes the introduction to her last ever book: ‘Even the most seemingly moribund life is open to the possibility of change -- in youth, in middle age, and always.' "
-Sile McArdle ©Independent.ie
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781934848418 |
| PRICE | 17.95 |
| PAGES | 446 |
