Redemption Falls
Redemption Falls
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Published:
3 October, 2019
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'Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better' Observer
Discover the powerful sequel to international bestseller Star of the Sea
1865. The American Civil War is ending, but for Eliza Duane Mooney her journey across a devastated America has only just begun.
Eliza 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, runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet and the mercurial revolutionary James Con O'Keeffe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army and is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781529112610 |
| ISBN10 | 1529112613 |
| Number Of Pages | 480 |
| Item Weight | 340 g |
| Product Dimensions | 132 x 197 x 32 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A superb achievement * Irish Times *
The words 'A Masterpiece' are too often bandied around in reviews, but they should be this novel's subtitle * Sunday Tribune *
A novel of vaulting ambition. O'Connor's finest work to date * Sunday Independent *
This book consolidates and deepens O'Connor's stature as a major novelist * Irish Times *
Redemption Falls is a major work of modern fiction from an astonishingly accomplished writer -- Terry Eagleton * Guardian *
Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better * Observer *
A superb novel... Brilliant work... A lively and exquisitely phrased epic -- Thomas Keneally, Author of "Schindler's Ark"
A huge achievement, as deep as it is wide, this is a book like no other of these times -- Nuala O'Faolain
Redemption Falls is trauma incarnate, but its effect is both compassionate and luminous * TLS *
Books of this quality demand to be reread to reveal more of their complexities and layers of meaning. Redemption Falls would reward this on the level of its rich textures of language alone * Sunday Herald *
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Author's Bio
JOSEPH O’CONNOR was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011), Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist) and his Rome Escape Line Trilogy novels, My Father’s House, The Ghosts of Rome (Irish Book Awards Book of the Year) and The City of Echoes. His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
www.josephoconnorauthor.com