Product Description

Soon after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when the tension was at a peak in Northern Ireland, Colm Tóibín travelled along the Irish border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood tells of fear and anger, and of the historical legacy that has imprinted itself on the landscape and its inhabitants. Marches, demonstrations and funerals are the rituals observed by the communities that live along this route. With insight and intelligence Tóibín listens to the stories that are told, and unfolds for the reader the complex unhapiness of this fraught border.

'Tóibín has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man.' Kate Kellaway, Observer

'High class reportage...Tóibín was conscientious about talking to real people, not just "names" with a good line in TV chat, and went to see and hear and sense things at a local, grassroots level' Irish Times

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #202675 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

Review
"'Toibin has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man.' Kate Kellaway, Observer"

About the Author
Colm Toibin was born in Ireland, in 1955. He is the author of the novels The South, The Heather Blazing and The Story of the Night, and more recently The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. He has also written the non-fiction books Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona and The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe. He lives in Dublin.