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Neil Jordan - Mistaken - 9781848544208 - KSG0003850
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Mistaken

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Description for Mistaken Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 424. Good, clean copy. Previous owner's name half title page

'I had been mistaken for him so many times that when he died it was as if part of myself had died too.'

Kevin Thunder grew up with a double - a boy so uncannily like him that they were mistaken for each other at every turn. As children in 1960s Dublin, one lived next to Bram Stoker's house, haunted by an imagined Dracula, the other in the more refined spaces of Palmerston Park. Though divided, like the city itself, by background and class, they shared the same smell, the same looks, and perhaps, as he comes to realize, ... Read more

Neil Jordan's long-awaited new novel is an extraordinary achievement - a comedy of manners at the same time as a Gothic tragedy, a thriller and an elegy. It offers imaginative entertainment of the highest order.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Murray Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848544208
SKU
KSG0003850
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan was born in 1950 in Sligo. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels including The Past, The Dream of a Beast, Sunrise with Sea Monster, Shade and Night in Tunisia, a collection of short stories which won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has written, directed and produced a large number of award-winning films including The Crying ... Read more

Reviews for Mistaken
Praise for Neil Jordan's previous book Shade
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Extraordinary . . . an enormously powerful book
Daily Telegraph
Romantic . . . lyrical . . . a novel of atmosphere . . . it succeeds powerfully
Sunday Times
'Desperately compelling . . . Meditative and compulsive, Shade continues to haunt long after the book ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Mistaken


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