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Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border
Colm Toibin
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Description for Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border
Paperback. 'Toibin writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty' Daily Telegraph Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFS; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178 194pp
In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Tóibín walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape.
Tóibín describes the rituals – the marches, the funerals, the demonstrations – observed by both communities along the border, and listens to the stories which haunt both sides. With sympathy and insight Bad Blood captures the intimacy of life along one of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330373586
SKU
9780330373586
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99-1
About Colm Toibin
Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including Brooklyn, the 2009 Costa Novel of the Year, The Master, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and winner of the LA Times Book Prize and the IMPAC Book Award, and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize ... Read more
Reviews for Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border
Tóibín writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty.
Daily Telegraph
Tóibín has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man.
Observer
High-class reportage . . . Tóibín was conscientious about talking to real people, not just “names” with a good line ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Tóibín has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man.
Observer
High-class reportage . . . Tóibín was conscientious about talking to real people, not just “names” with a good line ... Read more