The Healing

by David Park (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $15.91

  A man is shot dead befpre the eyes of his young son as they work together in the countryside near their home. Another victim of violent times. In the city, a frightened old man frets over a world he does not understand and takes on himself the role of recording angel. Day by day he enters the names of those who have been killed, creating a ledger of loss for a purpose only he knows. When chance brings the widow and her son to live next door he believes he has found in the silent boy who will not, cannot speak, the instrument of his confused destiny. David Park's first novel is set in Northern Ireland. It is a story told without resource to sentiment or elegy which promises that, in the end, there is healing.