Silver's City (Abacus Books) [Import] [Paperback]

Maurice Leitch (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Sphere; New Ed edition (July 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0349121796
• ISBN-13: 978-0349121796
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,489,044 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Irish Gunman on the Run, June 25, 2002

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This review is from: Silver's City (Paperback)

We've been inundated with movies and books about the IRA gunman on the run, all very romanticised. Silver's City is about Silver, a Protestant "hardman", sprung out of internment and in hiding from a civil war he no longer understands. In confinement with his conscience and opposite numbers (the IRA), he has become a political apostate and once released a target for his own terrorist kind. This would make a great movie, but it appears Holywood thinks only Catholics are "sexy". This novel gives a picture of the Protestant side and shows how "Irish" they are too. It won the 1981 Whitbread Prize, so is a clear 5 Star novel, a classic of this sad time.