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The Abstainer
Ian McGuire
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2020-09-17
主題
Fiction / General
ISBN
147116361X
9781471163616
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=I36nDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
‘Truly terrific'
Richard Ford
'Dickens for the twenty-first century'
Roddy Doyle
'A powerful, gripping tale'
Sunday Times
A man hanging on by a thread.
A city about to snap.
From the acclaimed author of
The North Water
comes an epic story of revenge and obsession.
Manchester,
1867
Two men, haunted by their pasts.
Driven by the need for justice.
Blood begets blood.
In a fight for life and legacy.
Stephen Doyle
arrives in Manchester from New York. He is an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland, by any means necessary. Now he has come to seek vengeance.
James O'Connor
has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester as Head Constable. His mission is to discover and thwart the Fenians’ plans. When his long-lost nephew arrives on his doorstep, he never could have foreseen how this would imperil his fragile new life – or how his and Doyle's fates would come to be intertwined.
The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting revenge.
Praise for
The North Water, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
‘Brilliant, fast-paced, gripping.
A tour de force
of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world’
Hilary Mantel
‘Utterly convincing and compelling…
A startling achievement
’
Martin Amis
‘Riveting and darkly brilliant… McGuire has
an extraordinary talent
’
Colm Toibin
‘Has
exceptional power and energy
’
Sunday Times
‘A
stunning
novel that snares the reader from the outset and keeps
the tightest grip
until the bitter end’
Financial Times
‘A
vivid
read,
full of twists, turns
, period detail and strong characters’
The Times
‘
Terrific
– McGuire’s use of the pitiless, fearsomely beautiful Arctic landscape as a theatre for enduring questions is inspired’
Daily Mail
‘McGuire has a sure and unwavering touch…
a writer of exceptional craft and confidence
’
Irish Times