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Biografisk notat
John Broderick (1924-1989) was born in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland and died in Bath, England. He began his writing career as a journalist, becoming known as a scrupulous and often controversial literary critic. He authored twelve novels, including An Apology for Roses (1973), The Pride of Summer (1976), London Irish (1979) and The Trial of Father Dillingham (1982). Although The Pilgrimage (1961), his first novel, was immediately banned by the Irish Censorship Board, Broderick went on to be elected to membership of the Irish Academy of Letters in 1968, and in 1975 received the Academy's Annual Award for Literature.A brooding and beautifully observed short novel, an absolute masterclass in character study which I read with a mixture of awe and jealousy. Broderick's writing is fearless, unfussy and utterly ahead of the times. I wish I could write with this degree of intensity and calculated remove
- Jan Carson, author of 'The Raptures',
A sour and lasting portrait of what boils beneath kept-up appearances
New York Times
A taut stylish book that surely read like an incendiary device at the time... Broderick's tightly controlled style is awash with the sharp humour of recognition
Sunday Independent (Dublin)
Fearless and frank and sometimes comic... Had The Pilgrimage been freely available in 1961... [it] would have filled a silence about homosexuality that was almost total
- Colm Tóibín,
At its best, the novel's simmering moods and atmosphere of squandered potential and sexual deception recall Tennessee Williams
- Nicole Flattery, LRB
Masterly... Ironic, sarcastic like Swift and Shaw, sentimental like The Playboy of the Western World
- Julian Green, author of 'Paris',