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Buy this book on-line DEANE*, SEAMUS: : Reading in the Dark. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.CAPE,1996. ISBN 0224044052.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but a small neat author signatyre.Previous owner name+ address adhesive label to top of title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Sepia portrait photographic dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges,corners and spine/backstrip - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edge light tanning/aged - as usual/normal,contents bright,tight and clean.Publisher's original bright,clean, maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,5-232pp includes half-title page,author's black,nk signature above own name to title page,Pts 1-3 - 6 chapters.
A haunted childhood,lived out in two dimensions.One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan,home of the warrior Fianna; the
Field of the Disappeared,over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces.The other is actual: the city of Derry in the northern Ireland of the 40's and 50's; a place that is also haunted by political enmities,family secrets,lethal
intrigue.The boy narrator of 'Reading in the Dark' grows up enclosed in these two worlds,sensing that they're intertwined in some mysterious ways that he both wants
and does not want to discover.Through the silence that surrounds him,he feels the truth spreading like a stain until it engulfs him and his family.A book about how childhood fear turns into fantasy,and
fantasy turns into fact,the novel unfolds
its secrets like a collection of folk-tales; the dead sister walking again, the lost uncle,Eddie,present on every page,the family house 'as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth,closely designed,with someone sobbing at the heart of it'.
Claustrophobic but lyrically charged, breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable,'Reading in the Dark' is one
of the finest books about growing up - in Ireland or anywhere - that has ever been written.Irish poet's first novel that was
shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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