The Last of Deeds & Love in History - Hardcover

McNamee, Eoin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312146418 ISBN 13: 9780312146412

Publisher: Picador USA, 1996

Synopsis

A memoir of the author's life ranges from her childhood in Nebraska to her parent's separation, and a life of drinking and living on the streets

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Review:

Eoin McNamee's first novel, Resurrection Man, based on a true story, grippingly evoked the brutal sadism of the troubles in his native Northern Ireland. The two novellas of his new volume, each dealing with love across a mighty divide, are set in a small coastal town outside Belfast. In the first, "The Last of Deeds," a middle-class Protestant girl falls for a boy from a working class Catholic ghetto, a sectarian division more potent than that between the Montagues and the Capulets. In the second, "Love in History," which takes place during World War II, an American airman from a nearby base carries on a liaison with a local beauty. McNamee's atmospheric writing propels both stories toward inevitable tragedy.

About the Author:

Eoin McNamee is the author of Resurrection Man (Picador) which became a finalist for the 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1995. He was awarded the Macauley Fellowship for Irish Literature in 1990. He lives in Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0312146418
• ISBN 13: 9780312146412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 183