A Ghost upon Your Path |
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Author:
| McCarthy, John |
ISBN: | 978-0-552-77650-9 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Limited
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Imprint: | Black Swan |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $27.99 |
Book Description:
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We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to- our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family twenty years ago, John McCarthy has felt a strong affinity with its people and landscape. Yet in spite of his Irish name, he never thought of himself as remotely Irish. When McCarthy sets up home in a wild and isolated corner of County Kerry where his ancestors were living a thousand years before, he...
More DescriptionWe all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to- our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited Ireland with his family twenty years ago, John McCarthy has felt a strong affinity with its people and landscape. Yet in spite of his Irish name, he never thought of himself as remotely Irish.
When McCarthy sets up home in a wild and isolated corner of County Kerry where his ancestors were living a thousand years before, he realises that he is about to undertake not only a journey into that small rural community but also into his own history and his family. What he discovers there reveals a curious sense of belonging to a place he has never before lived in and peels back the emotional layers of his own fractured past.