Title: I Could Read the Sky
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 1997
Description: A simple Irish emigrant recounts his hard life. Like many simple people who do not rely on writing, he has a good memory and remembers the songs of his youth, all the better to drink away his homesickness. The account is accompanied by photographs on Irish emigration. By the author of Motherland.
Subjects: Irish, Older men, Emigration and immigration, Fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, general, Ireland, fiction, England, fiction, Astronomy, Social life and customs, Social aspects, Rural conditions, Irish fiction
Places: England, Ireland
LC classification: PR6065.G75 I3 1997