The black shore
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Author
Contributions
- Lynch, M. Kelly, 1942- - Contributor
Publication
2000 - Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg [Pa.], Pennsylvania
Language
English
Word Count
65,750 words, Guess
Page Count
263 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL46383M
- ISBN-100838754317
- OCLC Control Number42296086
- OCLC Control Numberblackshore00onei
- Library of Congress Control Number99045135
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- Goodreads1241883
- LibraryThing8488629
Classifications
- DDC823/.912
- LCCPR6029.N43 B57 2000
Description
"In The Black Shore, O'Neill finally expresses his criticism of Ireland, Irish nationalism, and Irish Catholicism, often in hilariously satiric scenes and with a cast of characters as ugly and unsavory as any to be found in modern Anglo-Irish literature. The novel is also an Irish love story of sorts and traces the perverse relationship between the local doctor and the niece of the parish priest - he, the confirmed and vocal atheist in a fanatically Catholic country, who is sadly incapable of expressing love and she, the wife who, looking for romance and glamour, in the bogs of Ireland, sees herself the possible instrument of his salvation. The Black Shore is also a fitting final statement of the man Joseph O'Neill who spent twenty-five years buried in the bureaucracy of the Irish Department of Education, loathing the petty, bourgeois life he lived, longing for the heroic past, for the time - if it ever existed - when a man's thoughts and actions functioned in accord."--BOOK JACKET.
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