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The Map Of Tenderness
William Wall
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Description for The Map Of Tenderness
Paperback.
Joe Lyons has never had much success with relationships until he meets Suzie, a young music teacher. Living a solitary existence as a writer, he's alienated his mother with his autobiographical first novel and has little to say to his stridently religious sister, Mary. Only his father keeps in regular touch. But now, in the warmth of this new love, the happy endings finally seem to outnumber the tragedies. So when news comes that his mother is seriously ill, he returns home, but what he finds there shocks him out of his complacency and Joe, like his father, comes to ... Read more
Joe Lyons has never had much success with relationships until he meets Suzie, a young music teacher. Living a solitary existence as a writer, he's alienated his mother with his autobiographical first novel and has little to say to his stridently religious sister, Mary. Only his father keeps in regular touch. But now, in the warmth of this new love, the happy endings finally seem to outnumber the tragedies. So when news comes that his mother is seriously ill, he returns home, but what he finds there shocks him out of his complacency and Joe, like his father, comes to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340822142
SKU
V9780340822142
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About William Wall
William Wall is an award winning poet and short story writer, and the author of several works of fiction for children, whose first adult novel, ALICE FALLING, was published by Sceptre in 2000. His work has appeared in The Irish Times, New Irish Writing and has been broadcast on radio on RTE. He is married with two children and lives ... Read more
Reviews for The Map Of Tenderness
A dark and sensuous stylist ... He really is shaping up to be among the very best of the almost overabundant crop of Irish literary production during the last decade.
Desmond Traynor, Irish Independent
Eloquent and haunting
Doug Johnstone, List
The novel works on many levels. As an examination of the tangled skeins of family allegiance, ... Read more
Desmond Traynor, Irish Independent
Eloquent and haunting
Doug Johnstone, List
The novel works on many levels. As an examination of the tangled skeins of family allegiance, ... Read more