The Beasts They Turned Away

Name: The Beasts They Turned Away
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ryan Dennis
ISBN: 9798765051566

Author: Ryan Dennis

Narrator: Roger Clark

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/27/2022

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Synopsis

Íosac Mulgannon is a man called to stand. Losing a grip on his mental and physical health, he is burdened with looking after a mute child whom the local villagers view as cursed. The aging farmer stubbornly refuses to succumb in the face of adversity and will do anything, at any cost, to keep hold of his farm and the child. This dark and lyrical debut novel confronts a claustrophobic rural community caught up in the uncertainties of a rapidly changing world.

Contains mature themes.

About Ryan Dennis

Ryan Dennis is a former Fullbright Scholar in creative writing and has taught creative writing at several universities. He has been published in various literary journals, particularly in the US, including The Cimarron Review, The Threepenny Review, and New England Review. In addition to completing a PhD in creative writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway, he is a syndicated columnist for agricultural journals around the world. The Beasts They Turned Away is Ryan's debut novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on June 12, 2022

This is Ryan Daniels's finely crafted debut novel, set in a rural Irish farming community and following the aging farmer, Iosac. The entire work is cloaked with a sense of foreboding. Iosac is a brooding character, an anachronism even among his neighbors. Iosac has taken in a small boy, a mute child......more

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on March 25, 2022

Longlisted for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the real find of the longlist I plough I plough, the old man says, I plough across this stony earth. The sun does not set in a sunless sky and so it is to man himself to know what he has done and to know his soul. The ground cleaves befor......more

Goodreads review by Paul on February 15, 2022

Longlisted for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize The old man leaves the shed, trudges the worm path to the house. His hurl drags behind him in the grass. A handful of cows still linger near the gate. Between them, across their bodies, the words Emma, Ache, I, Sometimes. The Beasts They Turned A......more