Eneas McNulty is sentenced to death by the IRA, for fighting with the British in World War I. So McNulty begins his wanderings from Ireland to England, France and Africa, through peacetime and wartime, loneliness and friendship, all the time pursued by those he thinks of as the men in dark coats.
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Eneas McNulty is sentenced to death by the IRA, for fighting with the British in World War I. So McNulty begins his wanderings from Ireland to England, France and Africa, through peacetime and wartime, loneliness and friendship, all the time pursued by those he thinks of as the men in dark coats.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Signed by Author(s) Signed by the author on the title page. Not inscribed. The book is in fine condition. The jacket is in near fine condition with very light edgewear. First Edition, First Printing.
Most of us have a kind of control over our destiny and rarely make choices that unwittingly condemn us to eventual suffering and hardship. Eneas McNulty does, however, and ends up wandering. a kind of Irish Aeneas, fleeing from his Irish Troy into other infernos. Sounds cheerful! In the hands of Sebastian Barry, though, a marvellous sculptor with words, you cannot help but be drawn into the life of this unfortunate - at the end, I felt uplifted and grateful, almost as if I, too, had come out of an epic journey, alive and wiser. Thank you, Mr. Barry.