The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World - Softcover

Keneally, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385720262 ISBN 13: 9780385720267

Verlag: Anchor Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Keneally Thomas

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Críticas:

"An epic tale of courage and ingenuity." --The New York Times Book Review

"Intensely researched, passionately narrated. . . . Fascinating stories." --Chicago Tribune

"The Great Shame . . . is a brave work whose narrative threads connect the personal, the political and the historical, leaving us with vivid impressions of 'Irish ghosts' in both triumph and tragedy." --Los Angeles Times

"Exciting reading. [Keneally] is a master of narrative pace."-Thomas Flanagan, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"In the style of the best historians, [Keneally] allows the intrinsic power of the tales he tells and the people who populate his pages to draw the reader into a fully elaborated universe." --The New York Times

Reseña del editor:

Provides an incisive analysis of the influence the Irish had on the world in the nineteenth century, when Ireland lost half of its population, to famine, emigration, and transportation to Australia. Reprint. 65,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Anchor Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385720262
• ISBN 13: 9780385720267
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 712