Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains

Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

New York. 1997. April 1997. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

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: Europe Ireland Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-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.