Turlough, a novel (SIGNED)
by Keenan, Brian
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine, 1st edition, SIGNED
- ISBN 10
- 0224041517
- ISBN 13
- 9780224041515
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 2000. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, SIGNED. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life imprisoned, shaped by the dark.Narrated largely by O'Carolan from his death-bed, and through the recollections of those closest to him, Turlough powerfully brings to life a lost Ireland of famine and disease, eviction and oppression. Stalking through the broken and dispossessed comes Turlough O'Carolan, the musical prodigy, blinded by smallpox and now an itinerant harper, lauded by the aristocracy and a hero to his people. His Rabelaisian desire for drink and women is counterpointed by his artistic struggle towards the great music and some kind of inner peace. Driven by demons and dreams, riven by contradictions, Turlough emerges as a great man, full of frailty: a blind man afraid of the dark.A panoramic picaresque, rich with the textures and smells of rural Ireland and peopled by a host of angels and devils, Turlough is a remarkable historical journey, and a huge imaginative feat
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132571
- Title
- Turlough, a novel (SIGNED)
- Author
- Keenan, Brian
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st edition, SIGNED
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224041517
- ISBN 13
- 9780224041515
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 333
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, signed, Keenan
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.66 g
- Size
- 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10\"\" x 6_\"\")
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