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The South (Nineties)
Colm Toibin
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Description for The South (Nineties)
Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
'Night is coming down and there is a hum of noise from the street. I have been here for several weeks. I am grateful that the fat woman who runs this hotel and her little mouse of a husband do not speak English. I remain a mystery to them; they cannot get through to me. The man in the next room - as far as I can understand a word he says - goes to the opera every night and listens to opera on his radio all the time.' The South begins with Katherine Proctor's arrival in Barcelona ... Read more
'Night is coming down and there is a hum of noise from the street. I have been here for several weeks. I am grateful that the fat woman who runs this hotel and her little mouse of a husband do not speak English. I remain a mystery to them; they cannot get through to me. The man in the next room - as far as I can understand a word he says - goes to the opera every night and listens to opera on his radio all the time.' The South begins with Katherine Proctor's arrival in Barcelona ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852421700
SKU
KAC0001477
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin is the author of four novels (The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker) and also a book about Catholic Europe.
Reviews for The South (Nineties)
The South is a daring, imaginative feat; the world it conjures is at once familiar and strange, and strangely moving. A splendid first novel. John Banville