Deane, Seamus
by Reading in the Dark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0394574400
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574400
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About This Item
New York. 1997. April 1997. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0394574400. 247 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Jeff Cottenden. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend - the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly - reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it.' Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. inventory #23645 ISBN: 0394574400.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23645
- Title
- Deane, Seamus
- Author
- Reading in the Dark
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394574400
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574400
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1997
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