The Cold Eye of Heaven
Will be published approx. on 1. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-84354-990-1 (ISBN)
Description
Farley is dying and we are by his side. As his mind begins to move back over his 75 years, Farley takes us into his past and with the comic wit of a true Dubliner unravels his life - its loves, its losses and its betrayals - right in front of our eyes.
Reviews / Votes
This stunning novel has as its core the pulsing heart of love that drives the circulation of every being... Extraordinary * Independent on Sunday * I simply didn't want it to reach its conclusion... Farley and the supporting characters in The Cold Eye of Heaven have moved into my head and I just don't have the heart to evict them. * Sunday Independent * Christine Dwyer Hickey's most achieved, taut and nuanced novel to date... Farley is a triumph. * Irish Independent * The most profound novel I have read for years... As I finished reading, I turned to the first page and began to read again. -- Stevie Davies * Guardian *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
195 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84354-990-1 (9781843549901)
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Person
Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. Twice winner of the Listowel Writers' Week short-story competition, she was also a prize winner in the prestigious Observer/Penguin short-story competition. Her bestselling novel Tatty was chosen as one of the 50 Irish Books of the Decade, longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award, for which her novel The Dancer was also shortlisted. Her most recent bestseller, Last Train from Liguria, was nominated for the Prix L'Europeen de Litterature. She lives in Dublin.