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I Could Read the Sky is a 1999 Irish film directed by Nichola Bruce. It is based upon a photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke, which concerns the Irish experience of emigration and exile. It has been described as an "innovative, melancholic, and deeply moving film".
Sep 18, 1997 · 4.07. 295 ratings48 reviews. With a foreword by John Berger I Could Read the Sky is a collaboration, in the shape of a lyrical novel, between writer Timothy O'Grady and photographer Steve Pyke. It tells the story of a man coming of age in the middle of this century.
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Aug 1, 2023 · Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke’s I Could Read the Sky, a novel made of pictures and words, has been acclaimed as a classic since it first appeared twenty-six years ago. Redesigned by its...
Jun 21, 2023 · John Berger. I Could Read the Sky. Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke. A new edition of the 1997 classic novel about an Irishman in London, told through words and photos. Read more. Status: published. Publication Date: 21.06.2023. Paperback £19.99. Add to cart. Audiobook £14.99. Add to cart. Ebook £14.99. Add to cart. Signed Paperback £24.99.
Jan 1, 1997 · From Publishers Weekly. This is a quietly ambitious, grave and earnest book that mixes the elegiac prose of Chicago-born novelist O'Grady (Motherland) with the haunting photographs of Englishman Pyke to establish, remarkably, a quintessentially Irish novel.
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December 22 / 29, 2023. Read this issue. In this review. I COULD READ THE SKY. 288pp. Unbound. Paperback, £19.99. Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke. In 1995 the president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, remembered being a student at Harvard and finding a copy of the Western People newspaper in a Boston newsagent’s.
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by Timothy O'Grady (Author) 4.6 56 ratings. See all formats and editions. I Could Read The Sky tells of one man's journey from the West of Ireland to the fields and boxing-booths and building sites of England. Now, at the century's end, he finds himself alone, looking back, struggling to make sense of a life of unforgotten loveliness and loss.
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