Stuart's classic 1949 novel of post-war Ireland. An Irish soldier returns home after the war and his unsettling of the pieties of village life leads to havoc, cruelty, and finally an act of wanton murder. First time in paperback....
This remarkable and powerful novel is described by Francis Stuart himself as an imaginative fiction in which only real people appear, and under their actual names where possible', and it is generally agreed to be his masterpiece.Originally published ...
This astonishingly powerful novel follows H on a spiritual quest for revelation and redemption, from his disastrous marriage to Iseult Gonne, the Irish Civil War and internment, to his life as a writer, poultry farmer, racehorse owner and bohemian in...