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Warrenpoint

Denis Donoghue author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:15th Aug '13

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A novelistic "family romance" from a key figure in contemporary literature, focusing with lyrical detail on his coming of age in Northern Ireland.

"Warrenpoint" is a memoir, and more than a memoir: with moments of novelistic narrative and lyricism wedded to musings on the aesthetic and theological themes of the author's coming of age--filial piety, original sin, a child's perceptions, and then the nature of terrorism, and of reading itself--it demonstrates the same insight and lucidity that have contributed to Denis Donoghue's fame as one of our most important critics. Taking its title from the seaside town in Northern Ireland whose police barracks served as the residence for the Catholic Donoghues, it has been described as a family romance, dealing not only with the author's love for his strong-willed, taciturn policeman father, but his love for literature and how it shaped his life to come.

ISBN: 9781564788726

Dimensions: 210mm x 137mm x 17mm

Weight: 276g

193 pages