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Redemption Falls
Joseph O´connor
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Description for Redemption Falls
Paperback. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a boy she has not seen in four years, one of the several children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious. It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors. This novel is a tale of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. Num Pages: 464 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338. Clean copy.
1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for her younger brother she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary. It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole McLaurenson, ... Read more
1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for her younger brother she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary. It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole McLaurenson, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
Used, Very Good
Weight
337g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099481522
SKU
KEX0208241
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About Joseph O´connor
Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His novels include Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Star of the Sea (Irish Post Award for Fiction, France's Prix Millepages, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year), Redemption Falls, and Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel, 2011). In 2012 he won the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in ... Read more
Reviews for Redemption Falls
"Redemption Falls is a major work of modern fiction from an astonishingly accomplished writer"
Terry Eagleton
Guardian
"The words 'A Masterpiece' are too often bandied around in reviews, but they should be this novel's subtitle"
Sunday Tribune
"Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better"
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Terry Eagleton
Guardian
"The words 'A Masterpiece' are too often bandied around in reviews, but they should be this novel's subtitle"
Sunday Tribune
"Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better"
... Read more