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Cold Eye of Heaven

Cold Eye of Heaven

by Christine Dwyer Hickey (Author), Christine Dwyer Hickey (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

Farley is dying and we are by his side. As his mind begins to move back over his 75 years, Farley takes us into his past and with the comic wit of a true Dubliner unravels his life - its loves, its losses and its betrayals - right in front of our eyes.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Jun 2012
ISBN 10: 1843549905
ISBN 13: 9781843549901
Book Overview: The Cold Eye of Heaven: the stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey, bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria. 'This stunning novel has as its core the pulsing heart of love that drives the circulation of every being... Extraordinary' Independent on Sunday

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This stunning novel has as its core the pulsing heart of love that drives the circulation of every being... Extraordinary * Independent on Sunday *
I simply didn't want it to reach its conclusion... Farley and the supporting characters in The Cold Eye of Heaven have moved into my head and I just don't have the heart to evict them. * Sunday Independent *
Christine Dwyer Hickey's most achieved, taut and nuanced novel to date... Farley is a triumph. * Irish Independent *
The most profound novel I have read for years... As I finished reading, I turned to the first page and began to read again. -- Stevie Davies * Guardian *
Author Bio
Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. Twice winner of the Listowel Writers' Week short-story competition, she was also a prize winner in the prestigious Observer/Penguin short-story competition. Her bestselling novel Tatty was chosen as one of the 50 Irish Books of the Decade, longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award, for which her novel The Dancer was also shortlisted. Her most recent bestseller, Last Train from Liguria, was nominated for the Prix L'Europeen de Litterature. She lives in Dublin.