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In a story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the nearer the ship gets to the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go.
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Tragedy is a word too often used. Nevertheless, in Star of the Sea Joseph O'Connor manages to achieve a real sense of the tragic, as personal dramas of the most distressing kind play themselves out against the background of the Irish potato famine and the almost equal nightmare of the mass emigration that it caused. As passengers die of starvation and disease in steerage, a drama of adultery, inadvertent incest and inherited disease plays itself out in first class. O'Connor raises, and does not attempt definitively to answer, real questions about responsibility and choice.
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Bankrupt aristocrat Meredith is emigrating, pursued by the hatred of his tenants and the memory of his mad-hero father. His children's nurse, Mary, has memories of lost love to torment her, as well as of the husband and child who died of hunger. And the ballad singer Mulvey has both his monstrous past and the certain promise that he will be tortured to death by the Liable Men should he not kill Meredith. This is a kaleidoscopic novel, whose events are seen in many idioms, from many points of view--it is a rich novel that knows that there are limits to the sense that can be made of history. --Roz Kaveney
‘This is a tremendous book; affecting, intelligent, ironic, humane and utterly convincing. It is also extremely funny.’ -- Spectator
‘great eye for the absurd in common things, great ear for the comic in ordinary speech. His writing is terrific.’ -- Praise for Inishowen: Roddy Doyle
‘great eye for the absurd in common things, great ear for the comic in ordinary speech. His writing is terrific.’ -- Praise for Inishowen: Roddy Doyle
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0436210134
- ISBN 13 9780436210136
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- Number of pages432
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