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Item Details
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WATCHING THE DOOR
CHEATING DEATH IN 1970S BELFAST |
| By: |
Kevin Myers |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1843548208 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781843548201 |
| Publisher: |
ATLANTIC BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2009 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Presents an account of Northern Ireland's bloody civil war in the 1970s. |
| Synopsis: |
Published to rave reviews in hardback, this exhilarating, savagely funny account of Northern Ireland's bloody civil war in the 1970s is now in paperback."Watching the Door" is the memoir of an ordinary young man who drifted into a war zone, made it his home and, somehow, emerged unscathed. After Kevin Myers graduated from university in 1969, a chance job application landed him a position as a journalist in Belfast. There, he was absorbed quickly into the local community. Soon he became privy to the secrets of Protestant and Catholic paramilitaries alike. In his darkly funny account of life on the streets, Myers evokes with searing clarity a society on the brink of civil war. His memoir is a remarkable portrait of those divisions, from the dedicated violence of loyalist gangs and provos to the behaviour of paratroopers, squaddies, Northern Ireland's police force and the wider population. Raw, candid and courageous, "Watching the Door" recalls the bloodiest time in Northern Ireland's recent past. It is a coming-of-age story like no other. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Atlantic Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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