Dallas Sweetman

by Sebastian Barry

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From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the divided loyalties of Protestants and Catholics in the Elizabethan Age. Before us, his judges, Dallas seeks to justify the actions of his life. But is he telling the truth? And can he be forgiven?

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Sebastian Barry is a playwright whose work has been produced in London, Dublin, Sydney, and New York. He lives in Wicklow, Ireland, with his wife and three children. Sebastian Barry is an Irish writer and playwright, born in 1955. He is the author of two novels, A Long Long Way and Days Without End, which won the Costa Book Award for best novel. show more His other awards include the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Dallas Sweetman

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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
822.92Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish drama1900-2000-
LCC
PR6052 .A729Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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