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Publication
Little, Brown and Company (2005), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 320 pages
Description
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. Thomas O'Malley's work has appeared in literary journals such as "Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Shenandoah, Gulf Stream, and "Blue Mesa Review".
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LibraryThing member deckla
When you’re in the province of saints, you’re in a land where winter comes in spring; a land of stone and granite; an ancient land where history is myth and myth is history; a land of ghosts and martyrs. When you’re in the province of saints, you’re seeing the land through the eyes of
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Michael McDonagh, a boy growing up too fast, his heart a jumble of hot-headed love and hope and prayers and revenge and fear. When you’ve opened the pages of Thomas O’Malley’s stunning, lyrical debut novel, you’re in the province of saints in a country called Ireland from 1976 to 1981. Show Less
LibraryThing member coolmama
Couldn't finished. Too etherial. Felt like I was in someones dream. May try again.
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Physical description
320 p.; 5.88 inches
ISBN
0316110396 / 9780316110396