The Failing Heart
Published on 9. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-910213-91-9 (ISBN)
Description
Smith's debut sees a student who is haunted by his mother's death and his ex-lover's child's imminent birth move through Dublin on an anxious existential quest.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambs
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 464 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
170 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910213-91-9 (9781910213919)
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Eoghan Smith is an Irish writer, critic and academic. He completed a PhD at Maynooth University, and has taught English literature at universities and colleges in Dublin, Maynooth and Carlow since the mid-2000s. He is the author of a full length study of the novels of John Banville, and the co-editor of a collection of essays on Irish suburban literary and visual cultures. He has contributed numerous essays, articles and reviews on literature and visual culture to a variety of academic and literary publications. The Failing Heart is his first novel.