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Peter Sheridan - Forty Four:  A Dublin Memoir - 9780330375115 - KRF0022483
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Forty Four: A Dublin Memoir

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Description for Forty Four: A Dublin Memoir Paperback. Paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear. SHERIDAN

Snow is falling all over Dublin. It is half an hour to the start of the New Year. On the rooftop of 44 Seville Place, a 10-year-old boy clings to a television aerial. His father urges him to turn the aerial towards England. The boy reaches up and in that moment, pictures from a foreign place beam into their home and change their lives forever.

Thus begins this astonishing portrait of a Dublin family as they chart their way through the turbulent waters of the l960s. We exult in their triumphs and cry at their disasters, but at no time ... Read more

'A brilliantly realised, almost novelistic, portrait of an urban working-class Irish childhood ... remarkably honest, involving, compassionate' Scotsman

'A beautiful, touching, bittersweet account of inner-family life...A lively, turbulent and huge tale painted in vivid colour on a very simple canvas. I'm glad to have read it and so will you be.' Malachy McCourt, Observer

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Pan
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330375115
SKU
KRF0022483
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Peter Sheridan
Born in Dublin in 1952, Peter Sheridan has spent most of his adult life there - writing, directing and collaborating in the theatre. He has previously written two volumes of memoir, both published by Macmillan. This is his first novel.

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