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Reading in the Dark
Reading in the Dark
Author: Seamus Deane
Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, 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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375700231
ISBN-10: 0375700234
Publication Date: 2/24/1998
Pages: 256
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3.5 stars, based on 25 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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This was a book I could not put down with family secrets and heart break about the day to day life of Derry, Northern Ireland. A young boy in the 1940's relates the impact that the "troubles of Northern Ireland" has on of his family through to the 1970s.
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A quick and easy read about Irish boyhood.


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