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Hardcover The Fall of Light Book

ISBN: 0446528404

ISBN13: 9780446528405

The Fall of Light

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Book Overview

Beginning in Ireland in the early years of the 19th century, the four Foley brothers flee across the country with their father and the large telescope he has stolen. Soon forced apart by the violence of the Irish wilderness, the potato famine, and the promise of America, the brothers find themselves scattered across the world. Their separate adventures unfold in passionate and vivid scenes with gypsies, horse races, sea voyages, and beautiful women...

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Rated 5 stars
I Love This Book

Understanding Ireland in the desperate years of the middle nineteenth century gives a better understanding of the Irish today and the immigrants who settled throughout our country. Through this deeply felt and achingly written portrait of impoverished life, the reader travels the broken land and immerses herself in the journey. I will reread this again and again.

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A real treasure

I absolutely loved this book. To begin with, the writing is exquisite. Williams' prose is so gorgeous he could probably turn a trip to the drug store into a meaningful, heartrending story. The plot is interesting in itself, but takes secondary importance to the writing and the atmosphere: this isn't so much of a novel as a story in the old oral tradition, and was clearly written out of love for Ireland and Irish mythology...

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Wonderful story

Although I admit it took me just a bit of time to get used to the author's style of sometimes convoluted sentence structure, I could hardly put this story down. After a fight with this wife, Francis Foley steals a telescope and leaves his Irish home with his four sons. The four sons are then scattered after they think their father has drowned while attempting to cross the Shannon River. The story of each son is remarkable...

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Celtic Eden

Niall Williams' novel is a joy. He has taken us back to a world, amazingly enough, in the not-so-distant past in Ireland. The episodic journey of the Foley clan does not come with a blazing climax, but is a replete telling of the tale of Francis Foley, his wife and four sons. Consistent with the Irish history of that period, all four sons leave Ireland, two to North America, one to Africa and one all about Europe, especially...

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another treasure from Niall Williams

When I saw this book at the aitport bookstore some weeks ago I knew it was a treasure I saw. Having read Niall Williams' two previous books this could be nothing less than a masterpiece.And I were right. The book took me from the first page, following Francis Foley and his four son's in their search for Emer, Francis' wife, and also their search for life.We follow the family to several continents, from Ireland to south Europe,...

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