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ISBN
9780552778435
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9780552778435
Publication Year
2015
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
A History of Loneliness
Item Height
198mm
Author
John Boyne
Publisher
TransWorld LTD
Topic
Books
Item Width
127mm
Item Weight
325g
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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The life of a good priest in Ireland over the past 50 years provokes one of John Boyne's most powerful novels yet Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation. It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.

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Book Title
A History of Loneliness
Author
John Boyne
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
127mm
Item Weight
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