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Description for Belios
Paperback. Fine copy
Narrator Noah Gilmore is researching the biography of William Belios, an ex-missionary and once famous photographer, and spends a week in his household at Oughterard, Co. Galway. Belios is Gilmore’s nemesis, his quarry, mirroring his own desires and uncertainties, as he determines to unearth family secrets: the dead wife buried in Africa and the blighted lives of three grown-up children. The eldest Medbh, an erotic illustrator, guides Gilmore down the labyrinth. Their futures demand an erasure of a troubled past as its layers are unpeeled and its perverse roots become exposed. This haunting tale concerns the unravelling of private lives; ... Read more
Narrator Noah Gilmore is researching the biography of William Belios, an ex-missionary and once famous photographer, and spends a week in his household at Oughterard, Co. Galway. Belios is Gilmore’s nemesis, his quarry, mirroring his own desires and uncertainties, as he determines to unearth family secrets: the dead wife buried in Africa and the blighted lives of three grown-up children. The eldest Medbh, an erotic illustrator, guides Gilmore down the labyrinth. Their futures demand an erasure of a troubled past as its layers are unpeeled and its perverse roots become exposed. This haunting tale concerns the unravelling of private lives; ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510673
SKU
KST0035351
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Ref
99-3
About Orfhlaith Foyle
Orfhlaith Foyle was born in Nigeria to Irish missionary parents and lived in Kenya and Malawi before emigrating to Australia, where she received a Bachelor of Humanities. She travelled to Russia and Israel and taught in London's East End for two years before returning to Ireland to work as a freelance journalist and edit a community magazine. She has been ... Read more
Reviews for Belios
“Belios is a dark, rough, funny novel about a dying genius and his crazed biographer. It rages with a wild vitality oddly touched by tenderness. Órfhlaith Foyle has fire in her belly.” —Patrick McGrath, author of Dr. Haggard’s Disease