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Love and Sleep: A Romance
Sean O´reilly
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Description for Love and Sleep: A Romance
Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Sean O'Reilly's debut novel is a journey inside the dark psyche of Niall, a young man on the run from the past and denying himself a future. Arriving in Derry, years after he left for a wandering life, Niall finds that very little has changed. The streets are still blighted by sectarian violence and the grubby pubs still cater for the lost and lonely. Just as his memories, fears or desires threaten to consume him, Niall enters into a complicated relationship, with Lorna, a committed socialist with a dark side of her own. Haunted by a past that only gradually ... Read more
Sean O'Reilly's debut novel is a journey inside the dark psyche of Niall, a young man on the run from the past and denying himself a future. Arriving in Derry, years after he left for a wandering life, Niall finds that very little has changed. The streets are still blighted by sectarian violence and the grubby pubs still cater for the lost and lonely. Just as his memories, fears or desires threaten to consume him, Niall enters into a complicated relationship, with Lorna, a committed socialist with a dark side of her own. Haunted by a past that only gradually ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571205455
SKU
KSS0003952
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Sean O´reilly
Sean O'Reilly lives in Dublin. His first collection, Curfew and Other Stories, was published in 2000 by Faber, to critical acclaim.
Reviews for Love and Sleep: A Romance
'Sean O'Reilly is a writer of massive range and impressive innovation... He is a stylist and you find yourself beguiled, finessed, seduced and dazzled.' Eoin McNamee 'An original and affecting voice in Irish fiction, one infected by a muted pathos and bleak lyricism.' Irish Times