Irish author Francis Stuart paints a stark portrait of an alienated man searching for wholeness and redemption. A narrator called H describes a life that includes internment during the Irish Civil War and a journey to Hitler's Germany during the 1940s. The details of H's life parallel the author's own. Stuart's work is fiction imbued with a sense of absolute truth and painful honesty. This underground masterpiece was first published in the United States in 1971 after several rejections by British and Irish publishers.
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Irish author Francis Stuart paints a stark portrait of an alienated man searching for wholeness and redemption. A narrator called H describes a life that includes internment during the Irish Civil War and a journey to Hitler's Germany during the 1940s. The details of H's life parallel the author's own. Stuart's work is fiction imbued with a sense of absolute truth and painful honesty. This underground masterpiece was first published in the United States in 1971 after several rejections by British and Irish publishers.
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Very good. Very good condition, light amount of shelfwear, some tanning to pages, reading crease on spine, pages clean inside with no markings. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 405 p. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Audience: General/trade. This astonishingly powerful novel follows H on a spiritual quest for revelation and redemption, from his disastrous marriage to Iseult Gonne, the Irish Civil War and internment, to his life as a writer, poultry farmer, racehorse owner and bohemian in 1930s London, and his arrival in Hitler's Germany in 1940. Arrested after the war, the 'outsider' at last finds himself 'alone and free, passionately involved in my own living fiction. **If you have any queries about this book, please do not hesitate to contact us at hello@ravenbooks. ie**