Nothing Happens in CarmincrossAt the height of the Troubles, Mervyn returns from America to his native Ulster, only to find the specter of bombs and political murder hanging over his idyllic Carmincross. This is the timely reissue of Benedict Kiely's novel about a land riven by terrorism. Benedict Kiely was one of the most celebrated Irish writers of the twentieth century. He died in February 2007. |
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