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Title: The Visitors

Author: Patrick O'Keeffe

Narrator: John Keating

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-14

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A lyrical novel set in America and Ireland from the Story Prize-winning author of The Hill Road.

As he did so masterfully in the connected novellas of The Hill Road, Patrick OKeeffes first novel moves back and forth in time and place to weave the story of two Irish families forever linked by love, secrets, and their heritage. James Dwyer was born in rural county Limerick before moving to Dublin as a teenager and ultimately settling in Ann Arbor. One night James past appears in the form of a down-and-out man named Walter, who issues an invitation for James to come to Upstate New York to visit his old childhood neighbor, Kevin Lyons. Although neither James nor Kevin particularly cares for each other, theres no denying their complicated past. Kevin and Jamess sister, Tess, were lovers while James fell hard for Kevins sister, Una. Illuminating the precarious balance of family intimacies and how stories can carry over from one generation to the next, OKeeffes The Visitors further delivers on the elegant prose and plotting that earned him critical acclaim and the Story Prize for The Hill Road.

Members Reviews:

Compelling

I really enjoyed this novel and it is very well-written, with compelling characters and narrative surprises that gel together by the end. It loops around the present and past in the main character's life in the U.S. and Ireland and focuses a lot on two families in Ireland, the main character's and that of his father's friend. A reeunion between the friend's son and the main character drives much of the US parts. Much is revealed in vivid, well-selected detail in often graceful prose. O'Keefe has an excellent ear for dialogue, and without obviously trying for it, the sentences have a sort of Irish rhythm and accent. Next I am going to read his first book.

Irish Catholic Family Dynamics

Oh the ties that bind - how hard to understand ourselves and our families! Jimmy has his flaws, but you will love him and root for him throughout the book. This book shows how strongly childhood actions and relationships persist. One may say kids mistreating another is just kids being kids, but we remember and it affects us.

This book also covers how poorly we understand our parents and how they got to be who they are.

Good on many levels - don't miss!

lyrical novel

The Visitors is a profoundly lyrical and beautiful novel, but not necesary an easy read. The novel is told by Jimmy Dwyer, an Immigrant from Ireland, and it is variable in time and place and Jimmy's thoughts and memories shift their focus, interweaving the past and the present, as he constantly remembers, relives, and rediscovers his past through the refracting lens of time and changing relationships. It is a novel that is, at times tragic, and certainly melancholy in how history plays itself out and repeats itself, how Jimmy learns that the past is always with us, no matter how much one wishes to escape it. O'keefe's prose is breathtakingly beautiful. He captures Jimmy's voice perfectly and he is fully and complexly realized. The interleaving of time and place is expertly and subtly maintained and captured in the nuances of voice that define different places and relationships. This was an exquisite book that I will not soon forget

Five Stars

I enjoyed it even more than his first book, looking forward to the next one.

the punctuation was terrible.