No place Viking, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, as unrevised and unpublished PROOFS, FOR THE COLLECTOR. -- Softcover, plain printed wrappers. Condition: very good (spine faintly sunned).

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The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late twentieth century. Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court. Obsessed all his life by the letter and spirit of the law, he is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Toibin reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships—with his father, his first "girl," his wife, and the children who barely know him. He gives us a family as minutely realized as any of John McGahern's, and he writes about Eamon's affection for the landscape of his childhood on the east coast of Ireland with such skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel that ensnares us with its emotional intensity and dazzles with its crystalline prose. In The Heather Blazing , Colm Toibin displays once again the gifts that illuminated The South , a book described by Don DeLillo as "a grand achievement," and by John Banville as "a daring imaginative feat...a splendid first novel."

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Bookseller: Bucks County Bookshop IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 34365
Title: The Heather Blazing.
Author: Toibin, Colm
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: No place
Date Published: 1992
Keywords: NOISBN
Bookseller catalogs: First Editions;

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