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From the critically acclaimed author of "Resurrection Man" come two tales of desire in dangerous times. Set in a small northern Ireland fishing town, "The Last""of Deeds" is narrated by a Catholic boy in love with a Protestant girl. The two young lovers act as witnesses to the loss of innocence that is an inevitable result of living in a violent place. "Love in History" moves back in time to an American air force base in Ireland during World War II, and is a profound record of love and loss, survival and redemption during wartime. No library descriptions found. |
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Also, the style of the writing seems poetic for the sake of discussing terrible and gross things in the most pulchritudinous language possible. The descriptions dance around the objects they seek to identify so that each sentence is a puzzle the reader has to figure out before it makes any sort of sense. To be honest, it made my head hurt. And, once I realized what the author was saying, I didn't want to have known it. Also, some of it just never made any sort of sense to me. "A wife's kiss is the sound of Betty Grable's heart broken with frost in the night." What? ( )