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Running to stand still (Book)
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Running to stand still (Book)
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Loot Price R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
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Running to stand still is moving testament to enduring love, the
hazards of history, the telling of stories and the power of truth.
The story begins in Ireland during the Second World War, where
O'Riain tells an extraordinary tale of a family at war with one
another and the violence that lurks behind their love. O'Riain,
forbidden by his mother to join the Boy Scouts or the reserve
national army, eventually puts on a uniform; the irregular uniform
of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). A couple of spells in prison, a
threat from a girlfriend, a daring run from the police and eventual
capture, all combine and the early indications of a psychological
split between the 'good' and 'bad' O'Riain, are made manifest.
These are the threads that take the writer, O'Riain himself, to he
present day, and to his search for a way of telling his story, and
eventually telling the tale of his marriage to his beloved Verne.
That begins one day, as O'Riain finds himself on a Johannesburg
street, kicking his wife. He is forced to look at the 'other'
O'Riain, the one who is a violent and abusive man. This is the
story of his recovery, of Verne's trust and love and their mutual
discovery of the roots of violence and provocation. By turns it is
shocking and beguiling and the beauty of the writing only
underscores the horror of the violence.
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