A01=Eoin McNamee
Author_Eoin McNamee
Booker prize
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Claire Kilroy
Corruption
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Mick Herron
Murder
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Tana French The Wych Elm
Product details
- ISBN 9780571207701
- Weight: 120g
- Dimensions: 126 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jul 2002
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
At 2.20am in the morning of the 13th November 1952 the body of 19 year old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first Dr Kenneth Wilson thought she had been the victim of an accidental shooting. In fact a subsequent post-mortem revealed that she had been stabbed thirty seven times.
Eoin McNamee's searing novel, based on one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in recent history, is at once a gripping thriller and a macabre dance through a shadowy world of corruption and sexual intrigue - a darkly lyric narrative of white mischief in post-war Ireland, of false accusation and savage murder, presided over by the haunted, tragic figure of Patricia Curran.
Eoin McNamee's novels include Resurrection Man, later made into a film, The Blue Tango, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Orchid Blue, described by John Burnside in the Guardian as 'not only a political novel of the highest order but also that rare phenomenon, a genuinely tragic work of art,' and Blue is the Night which was awarded the 2015 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives in Sligo.
