The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin

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Colm T�ib�n's lovely, understated novel that proceeds with stately grace ( The Washington Post Book World ) about an uncompromising judge whose principles, when brought home to his own family, are tragic. Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland's high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm T�ib�n reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships--with his father, his first girl, his wife, and the children who barely know him--and he writes about Eamon's affection for the Irish coast with such painterly skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel of stunning power, seductive and absorbing ( USA Today ).