Seamus Deane
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
"The Derry of poet Seamus Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark is a perilous place. Ghosts haunt the stairwells of apartment buildings, a curse follows two families down through the generations, close friends turn out to be police informers and the police are as likely to persecute an innocent man as protect him. And hovering over all the violence, poverty and despair of 1940s Northern Ireland is the spectre of the "Troubles". The hero of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A “circumspect and grippingly authentic” historical fiction classic of a brief but pivotal moment in Irish history and the struggle for independence from England (The London Times)
"I haven't so enjoyed a historical novel since The Charterhouse of Parma and War and Peace." — John Leonard, The New York Times
Named a most distinguished work of fiction by the National Book Critics’...
"I haven't so enjoyed a historical novel since The Charterhouse of Parma and War and Peace." — John Leonard, The New York Times
Named a most distinguished work of fiction by the National Book Critics’...
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