A Place Near Heaven: A Year in West Cork.
Author: ENRIGHT, Damien.
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2004. xvi, 240 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
‘Here we are, because it is too beautiful to move,’ said Virginia Woolf, about West Cork. It is, indeed, a very special part of Ireland. The Irish know this, as do the international celebrities who have come to settle there. The countryside has remained unspoiled and the people unaffected.
A Place Near Heaven is the story of a calendar year in West Cork, told in month-by-month observations of the natural world. Beautifully written, it is a book in the finest tradition of writing on rural life and nature, inspiring and suffused with a sense of place. In tracing the course of the year, Damien Enright captures the special atmosphere of the world in which he has chosen to live and which he loves with such obvious passion.
A paragraph at random: ‘Yesterday, after the weekend of half-light, the weather changed again and it was a beautiful, flashing day, as sharp as Siberia but, down by the south-facing sea, as warm as Spain. Backed into a sunny corner, I again watched the kittiwakes dance over the whitecaps. Sprats, birds and seals were still at Coolbawn strand. Television wildlife cannot compare with the reality.’
ISBN: 0717136892
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