A Ghost Upon Your Path - Softcover

McCarthy, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552999679 ISBN 13: 9780552999670

Verlag: Black Swan, 2003

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An exploration of family and roots.

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As a journalist in television news John McCarthy was sent on his first foreign assignment to Beirut in 1986 aged twenty-nine. His career was abruptly cut short by militiamen who kidnapped and held him captive for five and half years.

Since his release he has written four books - Some Other Rainbow (with Jill Morrell), about his hostage years, Island Race (with Sandi Toksvig), an account of their circumnavigation of Britain, and Between Extremes (with Brian Keenan), a journey through Chile and his latest, A Ghost Upon Your Path.

John McCarthy continues to work in both radio and television.

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We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family twenty years ago, John McCarthy has felt a strong affinity with its people and landscape. Yet in spite of his Irish name, he never thought of himself as remotely Irish.

When McCarthy sets up home in a wild and isolated corner of County Kerry where his ancestors were living a thousand years before, he realises that he is about to undertake not only a journey into that small rural community but also in to his own history and his family. What he discovers there reveals a curious sense of belonging to a place he has never before lived in and peels back the emotional layers of his own fractured past.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Black Swan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0552999679
• ISBN 13: 9780552999670
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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