Description
This magnificent novel depicts the uproar of Dublin in r9r3, when the city was suffering a general strike and mobs armed with wrath and improvised weapons roamed the streets; when years of repressed fury against the English, the Government and big business finally boiled on the sidewalks and thoroughfares. Here is the tinkling of pianos in spacious summer drawing rooms as well as the stench of poverty in cramped winter tenements, the pomp of pageants and processions as well as the empty misery of hunger and pawnbrokers’ shops. Here are people with hearts that beat, with genuine hopes and fears, with triumphs and failures, with loneliness and companionship, with smiles and tears.
James Plunkett’s novel is a remarkable achievement. It took him ten years to write. It conveys a vivid atmosphere of Dublin in the early years of the century and it portrays characters that surely must have breathed and died.
Hard cover. 543 pages. In very good pre-loved condition with the exception of slight damage to the dust cover. Edition includes the November 1970 Broadsheet review by World Books.