Deane, Seamus
Summary: A boy's coming of age in 1950s Northern Ireland amid the fear of the present and the ghosts of the past. It turns out his paternal uncle did not just die, but was executed as an informer. Not only that, the man who ordered the execution was his maternal grandfather. There's more, the uncle was actually innocent, set up by another member of the family. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1997
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Summary: Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present--the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1984
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Summary: Sophocles' play stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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Summary: In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1997