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The Heather Blazing (birthday edition)

The Heather Blazing (birthday edition)

by Colm Toibin (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Colm Toibin is a master storyteller, renowned for his keen, spare style and the understated emotional charge of his novels. Eamon Redmond, a High Court judge in his sixties, is now nearing retirement. But where you would expect him to look back contentedly over a lifetime of achievement, Redmond is forced, unwillingly, into an examination of his past. Land and sea, past and present, country and city, youth and age: Toibin employs the juxtapositions of life with effortless power, conjuring an authentic and deeply moving story out of the shadows of a man's memory.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Main Market
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 06 Sep 2002
ISBN 10: 0330493736
ISBN 13: 9780330493734
Book Overview: Colm Toibin is the author of The Blackwater Lightship , which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, as well as several non-fiction works.

Media Reviews
'The novel is narrated dispassionately and with deceptive simplicity, moving between the public figure of the judge in his study and the terrible deaths of childhood... It is impossible to read Toibin without being moved, touched and finally changed' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Author Bio
Colm Toibin 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 and the 2001 IMPAC Award. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross and Love in a Dark Time. He is also the author of two short-story collections, Mothers and Sons, which was awarded the inaugural Edge Hill Prize, and The Empty Family, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Dublin.