Reading in the Dark
Author(s): Seamus Deane
A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets.
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'Reading in the Dark is a swift, masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking...a sudden, brilliant book' Seamus Heaney
Winner of Guardian Fiction Prize 1996 and Irish Times Literary Prize 1997. Shortlisted for Guardian Fiction Prize 1996 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1996.
Seamus Deane was born in Derry in 1940. He has published a number of works of criticism and poetry and is the general editor of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. He is currently teaching at the University of Notre Dame.
General Fields
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- : Random House
- : Vintage
- : 0.17
- : 01 March 1997
- : 197mm X 130mm X 16mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Seamus Deane
- : BC
- : 823.914
- : very good
- : 224
