Against the Wind: Memoir of a Dissident Dubliner
Now an audio book
Capturing the cadences and frequent humour of Irish speech, this historically insightful and highly entertaining memoir Against the Wind by Irish-Australian writer James (Seamus) O’Brien is enhanced by Gary Furlong’s skilful narration.
Though “astute observation and character portrayal” are the strengths of the work. Naturally, it helps to have actors mediating the words on the page, giving them intention and physically embodying them. There’s no doubt actors add immense value to a writer’s words. In the right narration the words scintillate and perform and add to the listener’s enjoyment of them.
In this wonderful grab-bag of recollections O’Brien weaves together the many threads of history and his own life to produce an informed, often bizarre tale, that will interest many listeners and readers well beyond the globe’s enormous Irish diaspora.
SOON TO BE RELEASED THROUGH FINDAWAY VOICES TO OVER 30 RETAILERS WORLDWIDE
WATCH THIS SPACE
Being Bookish 