From the critically acclaimed author of Resurrection Man come two tales of desire in dangerous times. Set in a small northern Ireland fishing town, The Last of Deeds is narrated by a Catholic boy in love with a Protestant girl. The two young lovers act as witnesses to the loss of innocence that is an inevitable result of living in a violent place. Love in History moves back in time to an American air force base in Ireland during World War II, and is a profound record of love and loss, survival and redemption during wartime.
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Review:
Eoin McNamee's first novel, Resurrection Man, based on a true story, grippingly evoked the brutal sadism of the troubles in his native Northern Ireland. The two novellas of his new volume, each dealing with love across a mighty divide, are set in a small coastal town outside Belfast. In the first, "The Last of Deeds," a middle-class Protestant girl falls for a boy from a working class Catholic ghetto, a sectarian division more potent than that between the Montagues and the Capulets. In the second, "Love in History," which takes place during World War II, an American airman from a nearby base carries on a liaison with a local beauty. McNamee's atmospheric writing propels both stories toward inevitable tragedy.
About the Author:
Eoin McNamee is the author of Resurrection Man (Picador) which became a finalist for the 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1995. He was awarded the Macauley Fellowship for Irish Literature in 1990. He lives in Ireland.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0312168799
- ISBN 13 9780312168797
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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