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NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES STARRING COLIN FARRELL, JACK O'CONNELL
AND STEPHEN GRAHAM A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . .
1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle.
Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters,
Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of
ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the
journey, a cabin boy is discovered brutally killed, Sumner finds
himself forced to act. Soon he will face an evil even greater than
he had encountered at the siege of Delhi, in the shape of Henry
Drax: harpooner, murderer, monster . . . 'A tour de force' Hilary
Mantel 'Riveting and darkly brilliant' Colm Toibin 'One of my
favourite books ever' Richard Osman
NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES STARRING COLIN FARRELL, JACK O'CONNELL
AND STEPHEN GRAHAM A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . .
1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle.
Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters,
Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of
ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the
journey, a cabin boy is discovered brutally killed, Sumner finds
himself forced to act. Soon he will face an evil even greater than
he had encountered at the siege of Delhi, in the shape of Henry
Drax: harpooner, murderer, monster . . . 'A tour de force' Hilary
Mantel 'Riveting and darkly brilliant' Colm Toibin 'One of my
favourite books ever' Richard Osman
'Truly terrific' Richard Ford 'Dickens for the twenty-first
century' Roddy Doyle 'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday Times A man
hanging on by a thread. A city about to snap. From the acclaimed
author of The North Water comes an epic story of revenge and
obsession. Manchester, 1867 Two men, haunted by their pasts. Driven
by the need for justice. Blood begets blood. In a fight for life
and legacy. Stephen Doyle arrives in Manchester from New York. He
is an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War and a member of the
Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland,
by any means necessary. Now he has come to seek vengeance. James
O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in
Manchester as Head Constable. His mission is to discover and thwart
the Fenians' plans. When his long-lost nephew arrives on his
doorstep, he never could have foreseen how this would imperil his
fragile new life - or how his and Doyle's fates would come to be
intertwined. The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their
brotherhood is already plotting revenge. Praise for The North
Water, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 'Brilliant,
fast-paced, gripping. A tour de force of narrative tension and a
masterful reconstruction of a lost world' Hilary Mantel 'Utterly
convincing and compelling... A startling achievement' Martin Amis
'Riveting and darkly brilliant... McGuire has an extraordinary
talent' Colm Toibin 'Has exceptional power and energy' Sunday Times
'A stunning novel that snares the reader from the outset and keeps
the tightest grip until the bitter end' Financial Times 'A vivid
read, full of twists, turns, period detail and strong characters'
The Times 'Terrific - McGuire's use of the pitiless, fearsomely
beautiful Arctic landscape as a theatre for enduring questions is
inspired' Daily Mail 'McGuire has a sure and unwavering touch... a
writer of exceptional craft and confidence' Irish Times
'Truly terrific' Richard Ford 'Dickens for the twenty-first
century' Roddy Doyle 'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday Times A man
hanging on by a thread. A city about to snap. From the acclaimed
author of The North Water comes an epic story of revenge and
obsession. Manchester, 1867 Two men, haunted by their pasts. Driven
by the need for justice. Blood begets blood. In a fight for life
and legacy. Stephen Doyle arrives in Manchester from New York. He
is an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War and a member of the
Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland,
by any means necessary. Now he has come to seek vengeance. James
O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in
Manchester as Head Constable. His mission is to discover and thwart
the Fenians' plans. When his long-lost nephew arrives on his
doorstep, he never could have foreseen how this would imperil his
fragile new life - or how his and Doyle's fates would come to be
intertwined. The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their
brotherhood is already plotting revenge. Praise for The North
Water, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 'Brilliant,
fast-paced, gripping. A tour de force of narrative tension and a
masterful reconstruction of a lost world' Hilary Mantel 'Utterly
convincing and compelling... A startling achievement' Martin Amis
'Riveting and darkly brilliant... McGuire has an extraordinary
talent' Colm Toibin 'Has exceptional power and energy' Sunday Times
'A stunning novel that snares the reader from the outset and keeps
the tightest grip until the bitter end' Financial Times 'A vivid
read, full of twists, turns, period detail and strong characters'
The Times 'Terrific - McGuire's use of the pitiless, fearsomely
beautiful Arctic landscape as a theatre for enduring questions is
inspired' Daily Mail 'McGuire has a sure and unwavering touch... a
writer of exceptional craft and confidence' Irish Times
Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism examines the work of
award-winning American novelist and short story writer Richard
Ford, and places it firmly in the context of contemporary debates
about the role and meaning of literary realism in a postmodern
environment. In this fresh study of Ford's oeuvre, Ian McGuire
argues that Ford's work is best understood as a form of pragmatic
realism and thus positions him as part of a deeply rooted and
ongoing American debate about the nature of realism and pragmatism.
This debate, which reaches back to transcendentalist thinkers such
as Ralph Waldo Emerson and continues on to today, questions the
meaning of independence and the relationship between the self and
history. In this context, McGuire explores Ford's deep engagement
with American literary and philosophical traditions and repositions
his work in its appropriate intellectual and literary context.
McGuire also uses this idea of pragmatic realism to mount a larger
defense of contemporary realist writing and uses Ford's example to
argue that realism itself remains a useful and necessary critical
category. Contemporary realism, rather than being merely
conventional or reactionary, as some of its critics have called it,
can offer its proponents an aesthetically and philosophically
sophisticated way of engaging with and contesting the
particularities of contemporary, even postmodern, experience. In
offering this new reading of Richard Ford's fiction, as well as a
fresh understanding of the realist impulse in contemporary American
fiction, both become richer, more resonant, and more
immediate-reaching both backward into the past and forward to
involve themselves in important contemporary debates about history,
postmodernity, and moral relativism.
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