The Promise of Light - Hardcover

Watkins, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571167152 ISBN 13: 9780571167159

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1992

Synopsis

In 1921, on an island off the New England coast, Ben Sheridan is settling down as a clerk at a small local bank. Across the bay at Newport, the roaring 1920s are just beginning, when, through an accident, Sheridan finds out he is adopted he begins a quest to discover his true identity.

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Review:

"Superbly crafted...Myth and archetype are all over the place in "The Promise of Light," as real as the craving for independence or the hills of Connemara." --"The Boston Globe"
"Watkins is a territic writer...His books are lucid, intelligent and shamelessly entertaining, written in lean, evocative prose and displaying an uncommon delight in storytelling." --"Washington Post Book World"
"A full-fashioned romantic...Watkins is aware of every burning cottage, every hedgerow ambush, every body thrown on the road - of the powerful emotional magic of that distance scene." --"The New Yorker"
"Plaintive, beautifully realized." --"The Chicago Tribune"
""The Promise of Light" is that rare find, an action-packed book written in prose as sharp as the crack of rifle fire, as evocative as the smell of burning peat." --"The Providence Journal"""

Superbly crafted...Myth and archetype are all over the place in "The Promise of Light," as real as the craving for independence or the hills of Connemara. "The Boston Globe"

Watkins is a territic writer...His books are lucid, intelligent and shamelessly entertaining, written in lean, evocative prose and displaying an uncommon delight in storytelling. "Washington Post Book World"

A full-fashioned romantic...Watkins is aware of every burning cottage, every hedgerow ambush, every body thrown on the road - of the powerful emotional magic of that distance scene. "The New Yorker"

Plaintive, beautifully realized. "The Chicago Tribune"

"The Promise of Light" is that rare find, an action-packed book written in prose as sharp as the crack of rifle fire, as evocative as the smell of burning peat. "The Providence Journal""

"Superbly crafted...Myth and archetype are all over the place in The Promise of Light, as real as the craving for independence or the hills of Connemara." --The Boston Globe

"Watkins is a territic writer...His books are lucid, intelligent and shamelessly entertaining, written in lean, evocative prose and displaying an uncommon delight in storytelling." --Washington Post Book World

"A full-fashioned romantic...Watkins is aware of every burning cottage, every hedgerow ambush, every body thrown on the road - of the powerful emotional magic of that distance scene." --The New Yorker

"Plaintive, beautifully realized." --The Chicago Tribune

"The Promise of Light is that rare find, an action-packed book written in prose as sharp as the crack of rifle fire, as evocative as the smell of burning peat." --The Providence Journal

About the Author:

Paul Watkins was born in 1964. He is the son of Welsh parents and was educated at the Dragon School, at Eton and at Yale. His novels include Night Over Day Over Night, Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn, In the Blue Light of African Dreams, The Promise of Night, Archangel, The Story of My Disappearance and The Forger. He has also written about his experiences at public school, in Stand Before Your God. He was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1992 and 1996, and won the Winifred Holtby Prize for Best Regional Novel of the Year in 1996. He lives in the USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0571167152
• ISBN 13: 9780571167159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224