{"product_id":"reading-in-the-dark","title":"Reading in the Dark","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eReading in the Dark\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSeamus Deane\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780375700231\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage International\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1st Edition, 6th Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eSeamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend - the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly - reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house \"as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it.\" Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage International","offers":[{"title":"Reading in the Dark | Seamus Deane | Paperback | 9780375700231 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1534516","offer_id":50574759952642,"sku":"1534516","price":16.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71nQyHlBnyL.jpg?v=1790867347","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/reading-in-the-dark","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}