The Blue Tango (The Blue Trilogy)

The Blue Tango (The Blue Trilogy)

by EoinMcNamee (Author)

Synopsis

'At 2.20am in the morning of the 13th November 1952 the body of 19 year old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first Dr Kenneth Wilson thought she had been the victim of an accidental shooting. In fact a subsequent post-mortem revealed that she had been stabbed thirty seven times.' Eoin McNamee's wonderful novel, which is based on one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in recent history, is at once a gripping thriller and a danse macabre through a shadowy world of corruption and sexual intrigue - a darkly lyric narrative of white mischief in post-war Ireland, of false accusation and savage murder, presided over by the haunted, tragic figure of Patricia Curran.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 08 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 0571207707
ISBN 13: 9780571207701
Book Overview: The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee is at once a gripping thriller and a danse macabre through a shadowy world of corruption and sexual intrigue - all based on the real case of Patricia Curran and one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in recent history.

Author Bio
Eoin McNamee's novels include Resurrection Man, later made into a film, The Blue Tango, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Orchid Blue, described by John Burnside in the Guardian as 'not only a political novel of the highest order but also that rare phenomenon, a genuinely tragic work of art,' and Blue is the Night which was awarded the 2015 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives in Sligo.