Love and sleep : a romance / Sean O'Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Reilly, Sean, 1969-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young men--Fiction.

Young men.

Northern Ireland--Fiction.

Northern Ireland.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 199 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Carroll and Graf edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; [Emeryville, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2003.

Summary:

Sean O' Reilly' s debut novel is a journey into the dark and uncomfortable psyche of Niall, a young man on the run from the past and denying himself a future. In the nineties, soon after the first IRA cease-fire has ended, Niall returns to the damaged city of his youth after years of wandering around Europe- from city to city and woman to woman. His family has fractured, and Niall' s failure to show up at his father' s funeral has encouraged a bitter response. Just as his memories, fears, and desires threaten to consume him, Niall enters into a dangerous relationship with Lorna, a committed socialist with a dark side of her own. Love and Sleep introduces a new and strikingly original voice in post-Troubles Irish fiction.

ISBN:

078671235X

9780786712359

OCLC:

52459993

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