02479cam a2200337 i 4500 340709933 TxAuBib 20180227120000.0 170920s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781524760786 hardcover $28.00 1524760781 hardcover $28.00 TxAuBib rda Boyne, John. The heart's invisible furies / John Boyne. First US Edition. New York : Hogarth, 2017. 580 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in the United Kingdom by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, a Penguin Random House company, London."--t.p. verso. Shame. 1945 : The cuckoo in the nest ; 1952 : The vulgarity of popularity ; 1959 : The seal of the confessional ; 1966 : In the reptile house ; 1973 : Keeping the devil at bay -- Exile. 1980 : Into the annex ; 1987 : Patient 741 -- Peace. 1994 : Fathers and sons ; 2001 : The phantom pain ; 2008 : The silver surfer -- Epilogue. 2015 : Beyond the harbor on the high seas. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from – and over his three score years and ten, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much more. In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit. 20180227. Adoptees Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Conduct of life Fiction. Coming of age Fiction. Ireland Fiction. Domestic fiction.