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Dublin :Foundation

3.88 ( 17,924 Ratings by Goodreads)
Dublin

Dublin :Foundation

3.88 (17,924 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 5 May, 2005
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Edward Rutherfurd's great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city. The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and powerful High Kings at Tara, with the tale of two lovers, the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn. From this stirring beginning, Rutherfurd takes the reader on a graphically realised journey through the centuries. Through the interlocking stories of a powerfully-imagined cast of characters - druids and chieftains, monks and smugglers, merchants and mercenaries, noblewomen, rebels and cowards - we see Ireland through the lens of its greatest city.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099279082
ISBN10 0099279088
Number Of Pages 832
Item Weight 439 g
Product Dimensions 112 x 176 x 36 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cornerstone
Format paperback
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Expertly researched, full, undemanding and highly readable account of a place he has grown to know well -- Maeve Binchy * Ireland on Sunday *
The author writes with a charm and an authority that comes from considerable research this is a really handsome book * Irish Independent *
The author bounds excitedly through Irish history, interweaving narrative with historical encounters. . . Rutherfurd keeps racing through the pages * Daily Express *
Sublime talent. . . this is history with a human face and a fanciful soul * Good Book Guide *

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Author's Bio

Edward Rutherfurd was born in England, in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Since then he has written seven more bestsellers: Russka, a novel of Russia; London; The Forest, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum; two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century; New York; and Paris. His books have been translated into over twenty languages.

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