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Title: Water, Carry Me: A Love Story by Thomas Moran ISBN: 1-57322-854-0 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Trust, betrayal, and The Troubles
Comment: Pity poor Una Moss. Gangly, unattractive (or so she believes), orphaned, she has only her women friends until handsome, mysterious Aidan Ferrel sweeps her off her feet. Unfortunately, Aidan hides a secret much worse than the inheritance Una keeps hidden from her friends. As her love for Aidan grows, you wonder if he is indeed returning the love in kind. By the end of this memorable, powerful novel, you'll know. Or will you? Some readers will undoubtedly be uncomfortable with the uncertainty remaining at the end of "Water, Carry Me," but others will thrive on discussing that very ambiguity. This is a powerful, memorable novel which reminds every reader of some of the deep-rooted causes of the "Troubles" which continue to plague Northern Ireland. A word of caution--a basic knowledge of that conflict will help you to understand much of the political discourse in this novel. Although it is subtitled "A Love Story," it is much more than that, if it is indeed a love story at all! Read it and judge for yourself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thomas Moran is a Literary Chameleon
Comment: A fabulous review in the Washington Post Book World proclaimed Una Moss the 22-year-old Irish narrator of WATER CARRY ME to be "one of the most remarkable characters to grace fiction's pages".
I have a two-year-old demanding boy and I need to be enthralled with every little bit of reading I squeeze in at night. So I bought the book. I loved it and I totally believed the novel's beautiful and sad world. And for a short while each night it was also 'my world'- because a part of me always becomes the protagonist, male or female when I am truly seduced by a good writer. This book does that!
Una's voice is so genuine I could hear her accent, and the Irish sea town so real that I heard the sounds of everyday life as I read. I heard the violence and the terror, the shouts and the guns of Irish politics. I also heard Una's grandfather Rawney spin his tales. He is so unique I felt I must have met him once. I heard the young lovers in their most intimate moments, I understood their torments and inner secrets. It was real and I was enthralled. I don't normally care about Ireland's 'Troubles' but with this novel I found my precious free time put to good use and my money gladly spent. Thomas Moran is a true great writer.
Rating: 4
Summary: A hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking story
Comment: Although the title may indicate "Water, Carry Me" is a love story, it is, in fact, so much more. Set against the backdrop of a divided Ireland, the novel tracks a few years in the life of Una Moss, the book's fascinating narrator, as she rides the turbulent waves of her early 20's.
Orphaned at eight and raised by her grandfather Rawney in Cobh, County Cork, Una is perhaps one of the most interesting and compelling characters in recent fiction. Cynical yet naive, insightful yet oblivious, she is a wholly real person and draws us into her world and her experiences as she comes of age as an adult. As she enters university, she watches her longtime friends Fallon, Collie, and Gaynor drawing away from her, changing and developing tastes and interests completely different from her own, and finds her best friends are not who she thought they were. And when "the Troubles" violently hit home for Una, she slowly discovers the truth behind the long-held secrets in her family, and her life suddenly becomes enmeshed in that conflict.
But all of these changes become secondary when she meets Aidan Ferrel, a draughtsman from the North, who sweeps her off her feet with his self-depricating charm and adoration of her. Una believes she has found true love and begins to plan her future with the man who, in her eyes, is perfection. Of course, Una then finds out she doesn't quite know everything she thought she did about Aidan.
Moran's deft writing moves the book along at a swift pace, and the interest never sags. This is a thoroughly engrossing, enjoyable, and ultimately heartbreaking read.
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Title: The World I Made for Her by Thomas Moran ISBN: 1573227315 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Man in the Box by Thomas Moran ISBN: 1573226491 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Anja the Liar by Thomas Moran ISBN: 1573222607 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue by Edna O'Brien ISBN: 0452263948 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: A Venetian Affair by ANDREA DI ROBILANT ISBN: 037541181X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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