The Big Snow - Hardcover

Park, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747557268 ISBN 13: 9780747557265

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002

Synopsis

Northern Ireland, 1963. This is the story of a time muffled and made claustrophobic by unprecedented snow falls, and of people caught in the slow dance of this frozen land. In a house with windows flung defiantly wide, a wife dies before her husband can make his confession. Her coffin is pulled to the church on a sledge by Peter, a young man engulfed by his first feelings of love for an unattainable woman. Elsewhere, an old woman searches desperately for a wedding dress in her dream of love. When the electricity fails, a lonely headmaster is forced to close his school and in shadowy candlelight he is tempted into indiscretion. Meanwhile, in the very heart of the city, the purity of snow is tainted by the murder of a young woman and as one man begins to unravel the dark secrets of the city, he knows he is in race against time to find the murderer before the snow melts. David Park peers into the souls of his characters with an insight and compassion that makes this flawed slice of humanity somehow glorious. He is a writer of rare dignity and talent.

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Review:

“ Park writes prose like a poet; and the invisible lines of national borders and tribal territory are etched into a text which rolls though time and space.” -- The Times

“A magnificent writer” -- Belfast Telegraph

“Some of the more exhibitions fictional voices currently clamouring for our attention seen mute in comparison.” -- Independent

From the Publisher:

David Park peers into the souls of his characters with an insight and compassion that make the flawed slice of humanity somehow glorious. He is a writer of rare dignity and talent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0747557268
• ISBN 13: 9780747557265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288