My Dark Rosaleen - Softcover

Delaney, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006497888 ISBN 13: 9780006497882

Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999

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Reseña del editor:

Credible, compulsive, frightening novella from the author of A Stranger in Their Midst. 'Several weeks ago, I became involved in a local incident which grew into a national scandal, a front-page story: now it threatens me vitally, though none of it was my doing, not any of it.' So writes Patrick Newman, the bank cashier at the heart of this novella. On Saturday 13 June 1959, somewhere on an unnamed island coast Newman gives a lift to a local girl, Rose O'Mara, and, later, to the enigmatic old man who is to become his tormentor, Henry Mac. From that moment his nightmare begins. Sinister characters stalk him -- Led the driver, Affectionate Pat the barman, and Rank the Senator. My Dark Rosaleen was Frank Delaney's first essay into fiction after four non-fiction bestseller. The title is that of a well-known ballad, in which patriots for centuries celebrated their love of country through the name of a mythical, beautiful woman. In Patrick Newman's story that ballad become a motif, first sentimental, then political and romantic, finally devastating, as the young man's fears for his own future intensify.

Biografía del autor:

Novelist, broadcaster and freelance journalist Frank Delaney was born in the south of Ireland in 1942. His radio programmes have included Bookshelf and the language series Word of Mouth on Radio 4. He regularly appears on TV, having made arts and history documentaries for the BBC, including The Celts, and features in the Book Show on Sky News.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0006497888
• ISBN 13: 9780006497882
• Einband: Tapa blanda