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John B Keane |
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The Bodhran Makers
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Format: Paperback |
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Category: Fiction |
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ISBN: 9780863220852 |
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Publication Date: Available |
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Description
The first and the best novel from one of Ireland’s best-loved writers, a moving and telling portrayal of a rural community in the ’50s, a poverty-stricken people who never lost their dignity.
“This powerful and poignant novel provides John B. Keane with a passport to the highest levels of Irish literature.” Irish Press
“The book has everything, humour, romance and tragedy. John B. Keane can paint the real-life picture of rural Ireland just as Thomas Hardy captured English rural life.” Andersonstown News
“At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a comic celebration.” Publishers Weekly
“Furious, raging, passionate and very, very funny.” Boston Globe
“Told with a vigour and vivacity which keep the attention riveted.” The Irish Times
“Sly, funny, heart-rending... Keane writes lyrically; recommended.” Library Journal
“A riveting read.” Belfast Telegraph |
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Author
John B. Keane was the author of more than thirty best-selling books and some of Ireland’s most perennially popular plays, including The Field", Sive, Sharon’s Grave, Many Young Men of Twenty and Big Maggie.
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