Tread Softly in This Place - Couverture rigide

Cleeve, Brian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0304290904 ISBN 13 : 9780304290901

Editeur : Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1972

Synopsis

Cleeve, Brian. Tread Softly in this Place. London, Cassell, 1972. 20.2cm x 13.4cm. 316 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed by the author. The Ross is a quiet, unspoiled corner of Ireland, lying half asleep between the mountains and the sea. Many of its families have lived here for centuries and feuds of long, long ago still live with them. The history of Ireland is built into its crumbling walls and into the very fabric of its closed-in society. But, tranquil as it seems, the smouldering embers of tragedy lie dormany awaiting only the breath of rumour and fear to burst into flame. In his very successful novel 'Cry of Morning', Brian Cleeve told something of where modern Ireland is going. In 'Tread Softly in This Place' he tries to show where it is coming from; to explain how it is that families who have lived in one community for hundreds of years may still regard for each other as enemies while they pass the time of day with warm smiles. Until the moment comes when one of them kills another, not for personal hatred, but for a lofty passion - and what contorted complexities underlie that sudden violence. But there is a great deal more humour than tragedy to be found in The Ross. Many of the delights of this very delighful novel spring from Brian Cleeve's irreverent but always affectionate understanding of the joy of being Irish, and here you will meet a glorious collection of characters not to be found anywhere else in the world, brought to life with a thousand vivid touches. 'Tread Softly in This Place' is a story that can be read either as a graphic description of what happens in one particular place during the four days that decide whether it should live or die as a community, or as the story of the whole of Southern Ireland seen in miniature, an old warm, deep-rooted country trying to survive a..

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0304290904
• ISBN 13: 9780304290901
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible