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Neil Jordan - Mistaken - 9781848544192 - KOC0018155
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Mistaken

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Description for Mistaken Paperback. From the writer of The Crying Game, Mistaken is part thriller, part gothic tragedy, part comedy of manners, brilliantly evoking the divided Dublin of the 1960s and the trauma of adolescence Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 27. Weight in Grams: 264. Clean copy with some shelf wear

'I had been mistaken for him so many times that when he died it was as if part of myself had died too.'

Kevin Thunder grew up with a double - a boy so uncannily like him that they were mistaken for each other at every turn. As children in 1960s Dublin, one lived next to Bram Stoker's house, haunted by an imagined Dracula, the other in the more refined spaces of Palmerston Park. Though divided, like the city itself, by background and class, they shared the same smell, the same looks and perhaps, Kevin comes to believe, the ... Read more

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
John Murray Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848544192
SKU
KOC0018155
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan was born in 1950 in Sligo. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels including The Past, The Dream of a Beast, Sunrise with Sea Monster, Shade and Night in Tunisia, a collection of short stories which won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has written, directed and produced a large number of award-winning films including The Crying ... Read more

Reviews for Mistaken
Of all his books, Mistaken is perhaps the most universal - funny, mysterious and ultimately moving
The Times
Nothing less than a plangent, incisive poetic wonder of a book
Irish Times
The novel is so precisely written, in every detail, each syllable weighed, or so it feels that reading slowly, you find yourself watermarked by a ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Mistaken


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