The Fall of Light - Brossura

Williams, Niall

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330487000 ISBN 13: 9780330487009

Casa editrice: Picador, 2002

Riassunto

Francis Foley is a proud, stubborn man, and cannot stand to be beholden to anyone. Quick to anger and slow to forgiveness, it is his temper that, one day, costs his sons their home -- and their mother. This will not be the last of their losses however: as the four boys and their father embark on an odyssey to find untenanted land they can call their own, their already diminished family is divided still further. But if a combination of choice and chance cause the five to separate and scatter, each to their own road, then a series of casual encounters and coincidences offer some hope for reunion and -- in Francis's case -- redemption. Set in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, The Fall of Light traces the footsteps of the five Foley men. With elegant, elegiac prose, Niall Williams guides his characters -- and his readers -- through hazard and hardship, friendship, love and death, through to Europe, America and Africa . . . and home again.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

One family, five journeys - and a story that lives on long after the last page is turned.

L'autore:

Niall Williams was born in 1958 and lives in Kiltumper, Ireland, with his wife Christine and their two children. He is the author of three other novels, including Four Letters of Love (which was sold in over twenty countries and an international bestseller) as well as, most recently, Only Say the Word.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0330487000
• ISBN 13: 9780330487009
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 400