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Delaney, Frank Telling the Pictures ISBN 13: 9780002241885

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Belle, a mill-girl from a poor and religiously oppressive Presbyterian household, has fashioned an escape by discovering the cinema. Through it she tells her workmates the story of each film she sees. It is through this gift that she developes a relationship with Gene, a Catholic.

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'When you invest in a Frank Delaney novel you get more than your money's worth.' Daily Mail. 'A blockbuster with a purpose.' Times Literary Supplement. 'He certainly knows how to use bleak material to shocking and (perhaps shocking to say) entertaining effect.' Financial Times. 'A wonderful writer.' The Times. 'Delaney writes in a near documentary style: his words know they are tools.' Financial Times
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"In Belfast, in 1942, lived Belle, a mill-girl with a gift. Every morning at work, she enthralled people with the story of the film she saw last night. In her apron and turban-tied headscarf she climbed on the table of the spinning room in Rufus Street, and dramatised, in her own sharp accent, the passions of Hollywood. With her wide eyes and her wit, and her hands weaving gestures like a magician casting spells, she pierced the overcast of their long, dirty workdays."

So both begins and ends Frank Delaney's magnificent 'Telling the Pictures' and in between there is death and drama and humour, all the fabric of life. And, above all, the love story of Belle MacKnight and Gene Comerford, a Protestant girl and a Catholic boy caught amidst the hatred and passion that racks their land.

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  • PublisherHarperCollins
  • Publication date1993
  • ISBN 10 0002241889
  • ISBN 13 9780002241885
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages480
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