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Title: Reading in the Dark

Author: Seamus Deane

ISBN: 9780375700231

Publisher: Vintage International

Published: 1998

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: 1st Edition, 6th Printing

Condition: Used Copy

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.

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