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ZIN Product Number: 10085799
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 246 pages
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0375700234
Release Date: Jan 6, 1993
| |  | | | In Brief
This novel "traces out a series of scenes . . . of a boy's life in Derry, starting in February 1945, when the boy is quite young, . . . and ending in July 1971, when the grown boy, now ten years out of college in Belfast, visits for a weekend. There are 47 scenes, all dated by month and year, with a strong concentration on the period 1948 to 1954. Two other dates are crucial tothe book: 1922, the year of the shoot-out between the police and the IRA at the Derry distillery, the product of 'a last-minute protest at the founding of the new state'; . . . and 1968, when 'the Troubles came'." (London Rev Books)
| | | | From The Publisher
Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend - the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly - reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: 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." Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Set in Derry, Northern Ireland, in the late '40s and early '50s, this poetic novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, tells of a five year old's struggle to preserve his own innocence as he slowly discovers the dark secrets of the adult world. "The Troubles of Northern Ireland have produced some memorable books. But none has shown as achingly as this how the public, headline world of murder and retaliation, rumor and set-up, silence and suspicion, can enter deep into a single family, penetrating and destroying its heart"--Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
"'Reading in the Dark' is a swift and masterful transformation of family grief and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking. If Isaac Babel had been born in Berry, he might have written this sullen, brilliant book." —Seamus Heaney
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