Summary
Inishowen is by turns wildly funny and deeply moving, from the author of Star of the Sea.
From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, ‘a powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love’ (Independent on Sunday).
Inspector Martin Aitken’s life is a mess. He’s divorced, his career’s in chaos, and the last thing he needs this Christmas Eve is a strange woman collapsed on a Dublin street. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099286530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009928653X |
| Author: | Joseph O'Connor |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 331g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
A powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love * Independent on Sunday *This is a tremendous book, affecting, intelligent, ironic, humane and utterly convincing. It is also extremely funny * Spectator *Inishowen is a vast page-turner, full of compassion, laughter and zest for the human condition, as well as a rattling good story * Irish Times *O’Connor is an enviably talented writer… A very fine novelist * Glasgow Herald *Ireland’s most versatile writer… His storytelling is masterful, and his characters are real and vibrant… A sombre, often heartbreaking story… O’Connor conducts his bittersweet symphony with humour, sensitivity and immense style * Independent on Sunday *
About The Author
Joseph O'Connor
Joseph O’Connor’s fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father’s House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
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