Blacksmith's Daughter

Literature & Fiction

HERRON, SHAUN

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

The bird in last year's nest

CAPE.

1st edition 1st printing paperback, vg+ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The hound and the fox and the harper

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Coronet

The Whore Mother (Signet W5854)

Signet

Every time of trouble has its classic novel. Here is a book that may well become the classic novel of the bitter struggles in Ireland today. Brutal, powerful, with all the elements of a good thriller, The Whore-Mother possesses a particularly savage and necessary type of truth. The Whore-Mother tells the story of John McManus who for reasons of conscience joined the Provisional wing of the IRA. Now he wants desperately to escape the world of mindless violence and brutality in which he has been enmeshed. Pursued by IRA gunmen, he flees the length of Ireland - by automobile, by bus, on foot - desperately struggling to outrun the consequences of his past. Two women are involved in his running. There is Kate Burke whose passion for John and for her country rages even in the shadows of gunmen; and Brendine Healy, an American girl who should not have left Boston. Involved with him also are the romantics and the killers and the people of courage and decency in both the North and the South. If one of the tests of a good novel is that its characters live with the reader for days and weeks - if another is that it informs him and makes him think - then The Whore-Mother is indeed a superior book. In it, the agony of Ireland becomes a metaphor for the nature of violence itself.

The Whore-Mother

UNKNO

M.Evans

Random House]

Brutal and powerful, with all the elements of a good thriller, The WhoreMother tells the riveting story of a man who wants to flee the Ira in the troubled Ireland of the Seventies.

Thrillers & Suspense

M.Evans & Company

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