The Heather Blazing
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| Author | Colm Tóibín. |
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| Country | Eire |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Released | 11 September 1992 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-330-32124-2 (first edition, hardback) |
The Heather Blazing is the 1992 novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It was the author's second novel and allowed him to become a full time fiction writer. The intensity of the prose and the emotional tension under the colder eye with which the events are seen, provided him with a faithful readership both at home and abroad.
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The novel tells the story of Eamon Redmond, a judge in the Irish High Court of the late twentieth century Ireland. It reconstructs his relationships with his wife and children thorough his life and the memories of a childhood marked by the death of his father. The County Wexford landscape and the death of the father are the narrative material, which Colm Tóibín would revisit again in the The Blackwater Lightship.
This novel made Tóibín the heir of John McGahern.
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