Description
From a young man already making a name for himself on both sides of the Atlantic as a chronicler of modern island, comes an original and wicked first novel set in the post-War years. It begins with the recollections of a Christmas past and ends in madness - a crisis in personal growth that mirrors the nation's.
Ambrose Feeney has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others' influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is a n old siege city of walls, both real and psychological. As Ambrose descends into lunacy he paints a starkly sane portrait of one family's life in an Ireland unsoftened by the mists of legend.
