Joseph O’Connor - Blake Friedmann

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REDEMPTION FALLS

Fiction (Literary Fiction) 464 pages

Vintage - May 1, 2008

‘This book took my breath away. If you’re interested at all in the American Civil War, Irish participation in same, love, the expansion of the West, you’ll delight in this novel. It is panoramic, yet dense and delicious in detail. It is written gloriously, as if Mr O’Connor toiled at some mighty cathedral organ containing the whole of the English language with its Irish and American flavourings. This is a brave book and only a brave heart could have written it.’ Frank McCourt

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Biography

Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His books include the novels COWBOYS AND INDIANS (Whitbread Prize shortlist), DESPERADOES, THE SALESMAN and INISHOWEN. He has also published biography, short stories and has written several successful plays.

STAR OF THE SEA received international acclaim. A number one bestseller in Britain and Ireland, it won the Prix Littéraire Européen Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune 'Hall of Fame' Award, Italy's Premio Giuseppe Acerbi for New Literature, France's Prix Millepages for Foreign Fiction, and was included on the New York Public Library's prestigious annual 'Books to Remember' list, for works deemed by a panel of critics to be of literary excellence. It was a 'New York Times Notable Book of the Year', runner-up in the readers' poll for 'Best Read of 2004' on British television's Richard and Judy Book Club, and nominated for the International IMPAC Literary Award. It has been published in dozens of languages and was the highest selling novel of 2004 in the UK.

REDEMPTION FALLS, his latest novel, is out now in Vintage paperback.

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