Silver's City - Softcover

Maurice Leitch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993591329 ISBN 13: 9780993591327

Publisher: Turnpike Books, 2017

Belfast is Silver s city. The city always made you pay for your dreams. Silver Steele, the folk-hero who fired the first shot of the Troubles, escapes from a prison cell into a city where he is remembered only in graffiti and finds a world where he is a symbol of a cause he no longer belongs to. Silver discovers that he has swapped a cell for the illusion of freedom: he is now the prisoner of Galloway, one of a new generation of gunmen. Against the background of a city at war Silver and Galloway engage in a private duel to the death.Silver s City introduced a new authenticity to the literature of Northern Ireland and is one of the seminal fictional portraits of the Troubles.

Review:

(A) tight-lipped and tautly-bound venture into the destitutions of modern Belfast. The urban wilderness of Ulster... is well caught. --Observer

An early pioneer of Northern noir. --Declan Burke, Crime Fiction Ireland

Perhaps the finest Irish novelist of his generation. --Robert McLiam Wilson

About the Author:

Maurice Leitch was born in 1933 and grew up in Northern Ireland. He moved to London in 1970 where he produced radio drama for the BBC. Silver s City won the Whitbread Prize in 1981. Maurice Leitch is also the author of Poor Lazarus (which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize) and Stamping Ground.

• Publisher: Turnpike Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0993591329
• ISBN 13: 9780993591327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192