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Plot Summary. Critically acclaimed Irish author Colm Tóibín’s second novel, The Heather Blazing (1992), revolves around an emotionally closed off Irish High Court Judge, whose life spans most of the twentieth century. He has thus lived through dramatically changing Irish attitudes toward history, religion, and sexuality without being able ...
1 de jan. de 1994 · The Heather Blazing. Paperback – January 1, 1994. The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late twentieth century. Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court.
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1 de fev. de 1993 · Share your opinion of this book. by Sally Rooney. by Sally Rooney. Tóibín's debut (The South, 1991) followed its heroine, a married Irishwoman on the lam, through a cycle of gain and loss; his downbeat second novel, the portrait of a Dublin judge, is all loss, no gain. An only child, Eamon Redmond lost his mother in infancy (she died in 1934).
25 de set. de 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: ...
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. The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family’s retreat by the sea at
30 de out. de 2012 · Publisher Description. 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. Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to ...
The Heather Blazing. Colm Toibin. Viking Books, $20 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-670-84789-1. Irish novelist Toibin here follows up his Irish Times /Aer Lingus Irish Literature Award-winning first book, The ...
