$30.35
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2018
Summary
Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, it has a louder voice. The local radio station runs a thrice-daily roll-call of the recently departed. The islanders keep vigil with the corpse and share in the sorrow of the bereaved. The living and the dead are bound together in the oldest rite of humanity. In My Father’s Wake, Kevin Toolis gives an intimate, eye-witness account of the death and wake of his father, celebrating the spiritual de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474605243 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474605249 |
| Author: | Kevin Toolis |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
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A broadside against collective [death] denial. In its alternating shifts of focus, from the intimately personal to the more journalistically detached, it lays bare the desperate numbness that accompanies that denial - OBSERVER
Powerful and immensely moving - THE SUNDAY TIMESToolis writes superbly…it’s as a memoir that this engrossing book works best - MAIL ON SUNDAYAbout The Author
Kevin Toolis
Kevin Toolis is a writer and film-maker. He is the author of an acclaimed chronicle of Ireland’s Troubles, Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA’s Soul. He has written for the New York Times Magazine and the Guardian and reported on conflicts across the world. As a film-maker Toolis has won a BAFTA for Best Single Drama and was nominated for an Emmy for his documentaries on the Middle East. His family have lived in the same oceanside village on an island off the coast of County Mayo for the last 200 years.
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