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Fools of Fortune

Door William Trevor

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#376195-XK32
Titel
Fools of Fortune
Auteur
Trevor, William
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin
Jaar van uitgave
1984
ISBN10
0140068767
ISBN13
9780140068764
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writers Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year Murder and revenge during the Irish Civil War The Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for hundreds of years. Though Anglo-Irish Protestant, they sympathize with the cause of independence and secretly fund Michael Collins' fighters. But one of their workers is an informer to the British, and when he's murdered on their land, though they know nothing of it, the Black and Tans come seeking revenge. Till now young Willy Quinton has led a pleasant, cosseted life. But the murder of his father and sisters by British soldiers brings him to a point when he can only contemplate revenge himself. He sets off for Liverpool with hatred in h... (Lees verder)is heart. Will he survive? Will the cycle ever be broken? 'To my mind William Trevor's best novel and a very fine one' Graham Greene William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, in 1928. He spent his childhood in Ireland and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, but has lived in England for many years. An acknowledged master of the short-story form, he has also written many highly acclaimed novels: he has won the Whitbread Fiction Prize three times and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize four times. His most recent novel was Love and Summer (Penguin, 2010).
Pagina's
191
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,00

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