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The Family on Paradise Pier [Import] [Paperback]

Dermot Bolger (Author)
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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate (2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007207301
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007207305
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,531,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, engrossing, July 16, 2008
Fascinating fictional account of the life and times of the Anglo-Protestant Goold Verschoyle family, whose idyllic life in Donegal becomes shattered by World War I, the Irish revolution and Civil War, as well as long-simmering sibling rivalry and family guilt about its relative wealth amidst poverty. Two of the three brothers turn to Communism while their sister -- the sheltered, romantic Eva -- learns to accommodate the realities and compromises of life without surrendering herself to them. Events take the family from rural Ireland to Dublin to London to the Spanish Civil War to Moscow and to Stalin's Gulags. Compulsively readable -- I devoured most of it in one sitting -- it's one of the most insightful novels about class and the personal relationship to it that I've read. Includes cameo appearances by Brendan Behan and James Gralton, among others.

And, it's based on the on an actual family named Goold Verschoyle. Bolger met the character based on Eva over 30 years ago, taped many of their conversations, and waited for them to ferment into a novel. Highly recommended. More on the Verschoyles here: http://www.verschoyle.org.uk/
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