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Title: The Bleeding Heart by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0-374-11432-3 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: 1990 meets 1690.
Comment: Late 20th-century narcissism encounters late 17th-century sectarianism in Northern Ireland. The 17th century wins (it generally does in Ireland) but not before we have been taken on a grand tour of the 'Troubles'--as they stood circa 1988--and of some fascinating and meticulously-imagined human psyches.
Ms Shriver is blessedly free of illusions about Ireland and its conflicts--as well she might be, after living ten years in Belfast. She looks with a cold eye on all the various factions and their addiction to self-destructive mayhem; and casts the same withering glance on the inner lives of her principals--rootless souls lost in a place where rootedness excuses absolutely anything
Rating: 5
Summary: Painfully wonderful
Comment: One of the best books ever written about the little "explosions" in life. The prose flows, the characters are well developed and each description of the inner emotional life of the characters just ring true. One of those books where I read it and said, "THAT is how I felt but could never describe!" Definitely worth reading especially if you are interested in Northern Ireland and the political situation there. Still worth reading even if you aren't interested in Ireland at all
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Title: The Female of the Species (Contemporary American Fiction) by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0140108327 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Checker and the Derailleurs by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0374146438 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Double Fault by Lionel Shriver, Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub Doubleday & Co ISBN: 0385488300 Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1582432678 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Great Fire: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0374166447 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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