Language: en
Pages: 157
Pages: 157
“Patrick Corcoran's first novel, Last Light Breaking, breaks a silence, telling the story of a survivor of the Great War slaughter who, fearing hostility to his British Army past in post-revolutionary Ireland, chose invisibility as a village postmaster in Somerset for forty years. Corcoran's evocations of a turn-of-the-century Carlow adolescence,
Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
Drawn from the author's family history, this novel shows how ordinary people become extraordinary by their love for one another. Each year, in the days leading up to Cecil Connolly's wedding anniversary, he lies in bed in his Catholic nursing home, takes an old cash box from the bedside cabinet,
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Sinner and saints, villains and heroes, the children, women and men in these stories all find ways to survive in wicked times. Some of these stories are old and were written down decades go. Some are new.
Language: en
Pages: 1004
Pages: 1004
This is a day-by-day calendar of plays produced at the major London theatres from January 1, 1950 to December 31, 1959. Covering dozens of west-end theatres and including production details of thousands of plays, operas, and ballets, this revised edition provides expanded or new information about authors, actors, plots, reviews,
Language: en
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