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by Eoin McNamee

ISBN: 0330340611
Author: Eoin McNamee
Publisher: Picador; New Ed edition (November 1995)
Language: English
Pages: 233
ePub: 1613 kb
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Rating: 4.7
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Category: Literature
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Resurrection Man book. In this, his brilliant and shocking debut novel, Eoin McNamee 'An extraordinary book, illuminating not only the political map of Belfast but also the dark ring-roads of collective memory and the secret blueprints inside our heads. Victor Kelly is the resurrection man, a violent and ruthless Protestant killer roaming the streets of Belfast in the 1970s. In this, his brilliant and shocking debut novel, Eoin McNamee announced his arrival as one of the leading chroniclers of Ireland's fractured past.

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. In this harrowing, haunting debut novel by one of Ireland's most acclaimed young writers, Eoin McNamee has conjured a dreamlike appraisal of the roots of violence.

Resurrection Man. Eoin McNamee 'An extraordinary book, illuminating not only the political map of Belfast but also . Eoin McNamee. An extraordinary book, illuminating not only the political map of Belfast but also the dark ring-roads of collective memory and the secret blueprints inside our heads. McNamee's stunningly dreamlike prose conjures up images of marvellous precision and intensity. An awesomely impressive debut. Time Out. 'Impressively confident. as lean and grimly purposeful a book as the demon-driven terrorist it sets out to explore.

Eoin McNamee (1961 in Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a writer . The film version of Resurrection Man, for which he wrote the script, was released in 1998.

Eoin McNamee (1961 in Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a writer of novels and screenplays. McNamee commenced writing another series for children, the first book of which is The Ring of Five, and the second of which is The Unknown Spy, both of which are based on plotting and espionage. He was awarded the Macauley Fellowship for Irish Literature in 1990. He lives in County Sligo. That same year, McNamee also wrote the script for I Want You, a crime film directed by Michael Winterbottom.

Though James once said not to worry, you had. by. McNamee, Eoin, 1961-. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books. t on November 21, 2011.

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June 1995 : USA Hardback. May 2004 : UK Paperback.

With bite and brilliance, rising Irish star McNamee burrows deep, to the brutal core of sectarian violence in Belfast, where a young psychokiller is sanctioned for his efforts to raise urban terror to new heights: a chilling, first-rate debut. Victor's dysfunctional family (silent father, bitterly brittle mother) can give no solace when he suffers beatings and false accusations of being the son of a Catholic, but he comes of age as fighting flares in Belfast, giving him ample opportunity to extract his revenge.

An extraordinary book, illuminating not only the political map of Belfast but also the dark ring-roads of collective memory and the secret blueprints inside our heads.

Comments: (7)

Faehn

This novel reminds me of when I was about 9 years old, I sent a magazine coupon off to a Mystery Book Club with a dime and received 3 books. This novel reminds me of those type of books circa 1950's. It started off slow, but then it got better and I decided to finish it. All in all, an enjoyable read with a lot of twists, turns and surprises. A comfortable murder mystery but not normally my cup of tea. I may read this author again in the future when I want to take it easy and relax.

Hystana

Max and Sarah are very busy with their business, friends, and family. Max is recovering from a leg injury when he runs into an old friend and follows her to find out what she is doing. He and Sarah run into a robbery, family problems, and murder. The case in this book can be really complicated, but it is action-filled. It is sometimes hard to follow the story, yet really worth the read.

Whitemaster

Incredibly well written account of a serial murder and his environment in blood stained Belfast during the 1980s.The author paints with words images of despair,decline and loneliness in a population torn by sectarian violence.This is not just a true crime novel.It has a poetic,lyrical quality that vivifies the inhumanity of its denizens.It literally pierces the "Heart Of Darkness". A keeper to be read and reflected upon.

Anayanis

Eoin McNamee has conjured, from beyond the grave, the doomed characters of his novel. Soulless death squad members who stalk Belfast in the wee hours. Abducting, mutilating, butchering dozens of innocent Catholic boys and men. Resurrection Man, is full of intelligence operatives, homosexual blackmail, too much amphetamine, the smell of stale whiskey, and ghoulish murder.

Mightdragon

Loved the preceding books in this series, but this one has distracting comma splices in every paragraph. I quit halfway through.

Abandoned Electrical

Another installment of a very fun series, featuring the return of Countess Lydia Ouspenska. Charlotte MacLeod is reliable, as always.

Ichalote

A good mystery with an ending that I couldn't figure out in the first 4 chapters. I like Max's attitude toward his in laws.

Our book club's book for January was Charlotte MacLeod's THE RESURRECTION MAN. We have read MacLeod books before, and many of us are fans. We wanted something light and humorous for the winter, so this seemed like the perfect choice.

Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, now married suburbanites, return to Sarah's townhouse in Boston. Max, while limping along Boston Common, bumps into Lydia Ouspenka, which leads the Bittersohns to a recently-moved-to-Boston art restoration business called The Resurrection Man. Meanwhile, a mysterious Tamil is running around Boston, and is seen near the scene of various art thefts and, worse, two murders.

Hmm. I don't know how else to say this, but this book was terrible. We had twelve people show up for the discussion, and not one person liked it. The word used, over and over, to describe the book, is "boring." It's only 250 pages but it seems so much longer. The magic that Sarah and Max had in earlier installments is gone; the characters are all parodies of themselves. MacLeod herself seems to be in particularly snobbish form in this entry, with language that is often stilted, artificial, and pretentious. How can you take a book seriously that includes dialogue like this:

"Curses! Foiled again. How wily of you, Barty. I suppose now you're going to evict me from the atelier."

"She told me to flee from the doom that o'ershadowed me."

And those are just two small samples. The entire book is written in this style. What makes it worse is the plot, which just sort of loops out of control until a ridiculous ending; many of the events of the book, including the denouement, require extreme stupidity or lack of basic observation skills on the part of the cast. Another word that many of us used when describing this book was "frustrated." We were frustrated by the slow pace, the silly plot, the snobbery and pretense, the cringeworthy dialogue.

We had this experience once before... reading a book by an author whom we really liked, but whose books we didn't (it was a Sue Grafton book). We continue to like many of MacLeod's earlier books, but if you are new to this series, please stay far, far away from this book and start with one of the earlier books. What a disappointment.

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