Death And Nightingales

Author: Eugene McCabe

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  • : $28.00 NZD
  • : 9780749398682
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : June 1993
  • : 1.5 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
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Description

It is 1883 and the farms of County Fermanagh, on the border of Ulster and what we now know as the Republic of Ireland, are crisscrossed with religious, political, and generational tensions. Through the events of a single day in the life of Elizabeth Winters, we see decades of pain, betrayal, and resentment build to a devastating climax. Born to a Catholic mother and an unknown Catholic father, conceived shortly before her mother's marriage to Protestant Billy Winters, Beth has lived a life of silent suffering since her mother's death. Determined to decide her own fate but doomed to repeat the tragic circumstances of her birth, McCabe illuminates her quiet, searing power with the tenderness of a poet, offering up a powerful, lyrical indictment of the tensions that tear families and nations apart. Death and Nightingales is a contemporary classic.