An early nineties classic... It reminds you of the privilege of freedom (Joseph Fiennes Daily Express)"There may have been more important books than Brian Keenan's An Evil Cradling, but its thoughtfulness and delicacy of feeling are unforgettable. Four years of savage captivity in Lebanon have been transmuted into understanding, not bitterness: a remarkable achievement" (Daily Telegraph)"From the horror has come something wonderful. An Evil Cradling is a great book... it has been created from harsh reality, and it has been created by a true writer... With the publication of An Evil Cradling, Brian Keenan is not letting the world forget. This is a mighty achievement by a magnificent writer" (Frank McGuinness Irish Times)"Scriptural in its resonances and its broad artistry, while being as gripping as an airport thriller" (Observer)"Unforgettable...a remarkable achievement" (John Simpson) --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Brian Keenan's release from captivity was the first ray of hope for those hostages held in the Middle East. He describes the plight of his fellow hostages with first-hand knowledge. The language he uses reflects his past efforts as a poet in describing the pain and claustrophobia of imprisonment.

An Evil Cradling: The Five-Year Ordeal of a Hostage

Biographies & Memoirs

BRIAN KEENAN

Leaders & Notable People

RANDOM HOUSE UK

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Turlough

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage

good clean secondhand copy, tanned page edges.

An Evil Cradling

While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life imprisoned, shaped by the dark. Narrated largely by O'Carolan from his death-bed, and through the recollections of those closest to him, TURLOUGH powerfully brings to life a lost Ireland of famine and disease, eviction and oppression, Stalking through the broken and dispossessed comes Turlough O'Carolan, the musical prodigy, blinded by smallpox and now an itinerant harper, lauded by the aristocracy and a hero to his people. His Rabelaisian desire for drink and women is counterpointed by his artistic struggle towards the great music and some kind of inner peace. Driven by demons and dreams, riven by contradictions, Turlough emerges as a great man, full of frailty: a blind man afraid of the dark.

TURLOUGH: A Novel

Jonathan Cape Limited

FOUR QUARTERS OF LIGHT: AN ALASKAN JOURNEY

Four Quarters of Light: An Alaskan Journey

Travel

United States

DOUBLEDAY

Between Extremes

Physical description: 344 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps, col. ports. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Keenan, Brian 1950- - Journeys - Chile. McCarthy, John 1956-.

Between Extremes: A Journey Beyond Imagination

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