First UK Edition, First Printing with full number line, Picador/Pan, 1992. In fine, like new, condition, clean and unmarked, lightly foxed at top edge, appears unread, in a fine dust jacket with price intact

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The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late twentieth century. Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court. Obsessed all his life by the letter and spirit of the law, he is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Toibin reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships—with his father, his first "girl," his wife, and the children who barely know him. He gives us a family as minutely realized as any of John McGahern's, and he writes about Eamon's affection for the landscape of his childhood on the east coast of Ireland with such skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel that ensnares us with its emotional intensity and dazzles with its crystalline prose. In The Heather Blazing , Colm Toibin displays once again the gifts that illuminated The South , a book described by Don DeLillo as "a grand achievement," and by John Banville as "a daring imaginative feat...a splendid first novel."

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Bookseller: Postliterate (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 823
Title: The Heather Blazing
Author: Colm Toibin
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0330321242
ISBN 13: 9780330321242
Publisher: Picador
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1992
Bookseller catalogs: Modern First Editions;

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