![]() A priest tells a cryptic tale of murder, a policeman hints at untold intrigue. Mother has a secret but so do Father, Grandfather, Aunt Katie,Ĭrazy Joe the local oddball and almost everyone else in the squalid, rubble-strewn town of Derry. ![]() In language strikingly lucid and scenes fired by a spare, aching passion, ''Reading in the Dark'' combines the intimacy of a memoir with the suspense of a detective story. The child was left excited and shaken, alert to every tick and glimmer in the house -Īnd to the mystery of his mother. She reassured him there had been no ghost, ''just your old mother with her nerves,'' he found her crying near the kitchen stove. Go back down the stairs, son.'' And although later See nothing between them except the window, where the Derry cathedral seemed to hang against the sky. His mother had just started down, and they were about to meet on the landing when suddenly she said, ''Don't move.'' He could The narrator, an unnamed young man lookingīack on his childhood in Northern Ireland, remembers climbing the stairs when he was 5. ![]() Wo memories rise, ominous as thunder on a clear day, in the opening pages of this first novel by the poet Seamus Deane. ![]() The narrator of Seamus Deane's first novel looks back on his boyhood in Northern Ireland ![]()
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