Tom Phelan, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $22 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56858-074-6
If civil war is the most cruel kind of human conflict, this powerful novel, the Irish-born author's first to be published here, serves as a searing illustration of its horrors. A harrowing dissection of the legacy of internecine conflict, its...
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Tom Phelan. Skyhorse/Arcade (Perseus, dist.), $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-62872-428-8
This witty novel from Phelan (The Canal Bridge) features Patrick Bracken, a 64-year-old special correspondent for the Irish Times, who returns to his agricultural hometown of Gohen. Patrick is investigating two suspicious deaths that occurred there...
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Tom Phelan. Gallery, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9709-3
Novelist Phelan (In the Season of the Daisies) stitches together a series of tender and earnest anecdotes of coming-of-age in the rural Irish midlands of the 1940s. Growing up on a farm, Phelan raised pigs, helped his father with the horses (“while
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