Tapes of the River Delta - Hardcover
Committing a murder after thinking about doing so for most of his life, Irish fugitive Theo Shortcourse remembers the events that led up to his act, in a chilling saga that spans three generations of a nineteenth-century town. A first novel.
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"It is difficult to know what to admire most in this gifted and original novel. It is a subtle and perceptive study of the pains of adolescence, an eloquent meditation on recent Irish history, a powerful story of betrayal and corrupted political practice and lost dreams." --Barry Unsworth, winner of the Booker Prize"A highly exhilarating and engrossing work of fiction...truly wondrous." --"Irish Times" "A marvelously lyrical, powerfully erotic story...Cunningham paints a dark and compelling canvas that writhes with incest, betrayal, spiritual and political bankruptcy?and the blasted hopes of twentieth century Ireland" "--Publishers Weekly"
Peter Cunningham grew up in Waterford, the city on which Monument, the town on which "Tapes of the River Delta"is based. His previous work includes a number of thrillers, written both under his own name and under pseudonyms. His novels include "Consequences of the Heart" and "The Sea and the Silence "(from the Monument series), "Who Trespass Against Us, Taoiseach "and "Capital Sins. "Peter Cunningham is a member of Aosdana, the Irish Academy of Letters, and lives in Kildare, Ireland.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0312140517
- ISBN 13 9780312140519
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages344
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