In the Province of Saints by Thomas O’Malley
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Overview: O’Malley sets a haunting local mystery against the tense backdrop of a country tormented by bloodshed and deep schisms.- In the tradition of Seamus Deane and John McGahern, a stirring, beautifully written, but unsentimental portrait of an Irish boyhood.
Even in a field crowded by the wake of Angela’s Ashes, this first novel of a hardscrabble Irish childhood stands out for its eloquence and its bleakness. In rural Slievecorragh in 1976, young, poor Michael McDonagh looks on after the death of neighbor Mag Delacey, whose affair with Michael’s father is much whispered-about. While Michael’s father searches for work in the States, his cancer-stricken mother rarely leaves the house, leaving Michael to keep company with his hard-drinking uncles as they eke a living from farm work and illegal fishing. The 1981 IRA hunger strikes loom over Michael’s adolescence, while on a daily basis a low-level class warfare persists between the merely poor and the truly destitute. Teenage Michael begins an obviously doomed relationship with Mag’s daughter Cait, making his hopeful moments all the more poignant.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery
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