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The Heather Blazing is the 1992 novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It was the writer's second novel and allowed him to become a full-time fiction writer. The intensity of the prose and the emotional tension under the colder eye with which the events are seen, provided him with a faithful readership both at home and abroad. [1]
- Colm Tóibín
- 1992
30 ott 2012 · by Colm Toibin (Author) 4.2 258 ratings. See all formats and editions. Colm Tóibín’s “lovely, understated” novel that “proceeds with stately grace” (The Washington Post Book World) about an uncompromising judge whose principles, when brought home to his own family, are tragic.
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1 gen 1992 · The Heather Blazing is a superlatively quiet novel set in the Wexford Coast, Ireland, about the resonance of childhood memories and losses that continue to reverberate through adult life. The key character is Éamon Redmond, a revered judge who retreats each summer at the end of the law term to a cliff-side house in Cush with his ...
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The Heather Blazing. Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Tóibín reconstructs the history of Eamon’s relationships—with his father, his first “girl,” his wife, and the ...
The Heather Blazing. Colm Tóibín. Synopsis. 'It is impossible to read Tóibín without being moved, touched and finally changed' Independent on Sunday. Colm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland’s high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, from his own childhood.
25 set 1992 · Despite its contemporary setting, The Heather Blazing - the title comes, inevitably, from a rebel song - is a book of ghosts, uneasy wraiths from Judge Redmond's small-town childhood: a...
The Heather Blazing. Colm Tóibín. Picador, 1993 - Fiction - 245 pages. Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland's high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how...
