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An epic American civil war novel with at its heart an Irish Republican James O'Keefe who ends up in America after escaping hanging and imprisonment in Australia. The novel makes a mystery of the true identity of O'Keefe, idolised and hated in equal measure, by deploying a mosaic of forms - conventio Leggi tutto

Redemption Falls is an epic Reconstruction era set novel based around the fate of a mute Confederate boy soldier and an former convict Irish aggitator turned Union General Con O'Keeffe and by extension those lives and histories that they are connected to. The setting for the novel is the USA's painf Leggi tutto

Take one part ersatz Wm. Faulkner (the story begins, basically, with a barefoot girl fearlessly crossing the countryside) or by Sir Walter Scott influencing Wm. Faulkner. Two parts of Cormac McCarthy at his bloodiest (the mute, murderous boy, Jeddo Mooney, is pretty much a McCarthy stock character). Leggi tutto

De Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog tussen Noord en Zuid, het was een ellendige periode vol wreedheden en veel te veel verloren levens. De eerste vijftig pagina’s moest ik even doorbijten, wennen aan de stijl én het geweld dat me om de oren sloeg. Riep af en toe herinneringen op aan Meridiaan van bloed van Leggi tutto

What an incredible piece of fiction! This sequel to Star of the Sea gets two thumbs up. Such is the amazing attention to detail I had to continually remind myself that it was a work of fiction. O'Connor is a master story-teller (the Salman Rushdie of Ireland) and if you liked Star of the Sea you wil Leggi tutto

Somewhere underneath this collection of "stream of consciousness" ramblings lurks a great story. Perhaps the author will tell it one day.

Amerikanische Geschichte ist nicht jedermanns Sache, das ist mal sicher. Und die Nachwehen des Bürgerkriegs finden in Deutschland sicherlich erst recht kaum Beachtung. Dennoch ist man überrascht, daß sich zumindest ein Buch über eben jenen Krieg auch hier in den vergangenen Jahren großer Beliebtheit Leggi tutto