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Nights Beneath the Nation Denis Kehoe

Nights Beneath the Nation By Denis Kehoe

Nights Beneath the Nation by Denis Kehoe


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Summary

Dublin, 1950s. Leaving his country home behind, Daniel Ryan is seduced by the bright lights of Dublin. Until one scandalous night brings the curtain down on Daniel's life in Dublin. Years later Daniel has returned from his exile in New York. As he struggles to reconcile the events that caused his departure, he is pursued by the ghosts of his past.

Nights Beneath the Nation Summary

Nights Beneath the Nation by Denis Kehoe

Dublin, 1950s. Leaving his country home behind, Daniel Ryan is seduced by the bright lights of the big city, by the wild parties of a bohemian theatre group, and by a young man called Anthony. Until one fateful, scandalous night brings the curtain down on Daniel's life in Dublin. Years later, and Daniel has returned from his exile in New York. Trying to blend into the shadows, he finds modern Ireland barely recognisable from the heady days of his youth. As he struggles to reconcile the events that caused his departure, he is pursued by a shady young man - and by the ghosts of his past. Set against the backdrop of a production of Fernando Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding, Denis Kehoe's debut is a sepia-toned tribute to love and loss.

Nights Beneath the Nation Reviews

Kehoe writes this engaging tale of long-buried secrets with poetic flair. * Gay Times *
Vivid... a bold and confident debut... This heartfelt tale of love, loss and the possibilities of redemption marks out Denis Kehoe to be a very promising writer indeed * Attitude *
This is a remarkable, sharply observed and engaging book which deserves to be well received. Although most of the central characters are gay it is not a gay novel nor indeed even a book about being gay; it is a book about being alive and being human in Ireland from the 1950s to the present day... the very period is caught in an extraordinary feat of creative memory... Part mystery, part love story this remarkable first novel has for me echoes of that wonderful Spanish novel Shadow of the Wind. I lived through most of the period described in this book and I can attest to its authenticity - that's exactly how it was. Read - and grieve - and celebrate. -- David Norris * Irish Independent *
A welcome debut from a new voice is Nights Beneath the Nation in which Daniel returns from America to the city he left in disgrace 40 years before, pursued by the ghosts of his past in Fifties Dublin. -- Alison Walsh * Irish Independent on Sunday *
Kehoe captures every nuance of a soul in torment...This is the story of a love doomed by social mores. Kehoe paints a shocking and oftern lurid portrayal of the days when lives were ruined by the subterfuge and hypocrisy that was once the lot of the homosexual community. -- Ros Drinkwater * Sunday Business Post *
This passionately written novel offers a bruised account of repression and loneliness, tempered by flickering instants of beauty and compassion. In places Kehoe writes like a dream, subtle rhymes and nuances drawing the reader towards a latent vein of mystery and eroticism. Complex and spellbinding, it's a book that intuitively fuses history and imagination and that's rare. -- Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski * Independent on Sunday *
Kehoe has managed to capture fifties Dublin to a tee... The themes of coming out and exile from Ireland are by no means new, but Kehoe handles both with subtlety. This book moves at a cracking pace. It is a taut story, well told by a promising new literary talent. -- Patrick Newley * The Stage *

About Denis Kehoe

Denis Kehoe was born in Dublin in 1978, where he now lives. He has studied philosophy and European literature and works as a critic, researcher and literacy tutor. Nights Beneath the Nation is his first novel.

Additional information

GOR001338021
9781846686689
1846686687
Nights Beneath the Nation by Denis Kehoe
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Profile Books Ltd
20080904
256
N/A
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