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Description for Shade
Hardback.
Nina Hardy has been murdered. She died in the house where she grew up, killed by George, her childhood friend. But her body is never found, and she remains, a silent shade, watching the events of her own afterlife. Her half-brother Gregory makes a pilgrimage home to bury her, after some thirty years away. There he finds Janie, George's sister and fourth member of their child-hood gang. Together they relive their shared history, as they struggle to make sense of Nina's death, and the people they all became. ... Read more
Nina Hardy has been murdered. She died in the house where she grew up, killed by George, her childhood friend. But her body is never found, and she remains, a silent shade, watching the events of her own afterlife. Her half-brother Gregory makes a pilgrimage home to bury her, after some thirty years away. There he finds Janie, George's sister and fourth member of their child-hood gang. Together they relive their shared history, as they struggle to make sense of Nina's death, and the people they all became. ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Castleknock, Ireland
ISBN
9780340834855
SKU
KOC0023572
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99-2
About Neil Jordan
Born in 1950 in Sligo, Ireland, Neil Jordan's early career began as a writer. He won The Guardian Fiction Prize for his book of short stories NIGHT IN TUNISIA (1976). Since then he has gone on to publish three novels, THE PAST (1979), THE DREAM OF A BEAST (1983) and SUNRISE WITH SEA MONSTER (1994). In 1982 Neil ... Read more
Reviews for Shade
Compelling, intriguing, precise and poetic ... SHADE courses its way, like the river Boyne that runs through it, steadily, patiently but, thankfully, never predictably before reaching its final, heartbreaking denouement. We should expect nothing less from the author of 'The Crying Game' - Triumphant. PATRICK MCCABE, author of The Butcher Boy 'With this fierce, dark and yet luminous novel, ... Read more