Our Time Is Gone
A Novel
Published on 17. March 2015
612 pages
978-1-4976-9987-8 (ISBN)
Description
War has come to England, and the Furys soldier on
Desmond Fury calls himself a working man, but it has been years since he put in a full shift. A brutally arrogant union leader, he longs to escape the working class and sees World War II as his ticket to better things. He is at a banquet for war recruiters, savoring the atmosphere of refinement, when a call comes from the hospital that drags him right back into the mud.
His mother, the indomitable Mrs. Fury, has collapsed. After years of holding the family together-and making life hell for everyone in it-she lies in the hospital, near death. But Mrs. Fury is not finished yet. As Desmond fights for respectability and her other children wage battles of their own, Mrs. Fury will do what she can to keep her family intact-even if it kills her.
Our Time Is Gone is the third book of James Hanley's acclaimed Furys Saga.
Desmond Fury calls himself a working man, but it has been years since he put in a full shift. A brutally arrogant union leader, he longs to escape the working class and sees World War II as his ticket to better things. He is at a banquet for war recruiters, savoring the atmosphere of refinement, when a call comes from the hospital that drags him right back into the mud.
His mother, the indomitable Mrs. Fury, has collapsed. After years of holding the family together-and making life hell for everyone in it-she lies in the hospital, near death. But Mrs. Fury is not finished yet. As Desmond fights for respectability and her other children wage battles of their own, Mrs. Fury will do what she can to keep her family intact-even if it kills her.
Our Time Is Gone is the third book of James Hanley's acclaimed Furys Saga.
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James Hanley (1897-1985) was born in Liverpool, England, to an Irish Catholic family.He spent time in the merchant navy and served with the Canadian Infantry during World War I. From 1930 to 1981 Hanley published forty-eight books, including the novels
Boy,
The Furys,
The Ocean,
Another World, and
Hollow Sea. He penned plays for radio, television, and theater and published a work of nonfiction,
Grey Children, on the plight of coal miners. Hanley died in London but was buried in Wales, the setting for many of his works.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part One: Dreams
- Chapter 1
- I
- II
- Chapter 2
- I
- II
- Chapter 3
- I
- II
- Chapter 4
- I
- II
- Chapter 5
- I
- II
- Part Two: Shadows
- Chapter 6
- I
- II
- Chapter 7
- I
- II
- Chapter 8
- I
- II
- Chapter 9
- I
- II
- Chapter 10
- I
- II
- Part Three: Interregnum
- Chapter 11
- I
- Chapter 12
- I
- II
- Chapter 13
- I
- Chapter 14
- I
- Preview: Winter Song
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
