No Country for Young Men
By (Author) Julia O'Faolain
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
15th October 2009
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
370
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 27mm
398g
'Entertaining and rich in comedy . . . gripping and moving.' William Trevor convent and return to her family. So begins the unravelling of community ties which form this brilliant and devastating story of human and political relations in twentieth century Ireland. Past and present, memory, madness and buried trauma shift in a disturbing kaleidoscope as four generations of the O'Malleys and Clanceys attempt to come to terms with the after-effects of the Irish Civil War. Booker Prize. thought about.' Irish Times
Julia O'Faolain was born in London in 1932. Her novel No Country for Young Men was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was brought up in Cork and Dublin, educated in Paris and Rome and married an American historian in Florence. She lived for many years in the US.