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October 6, 2016
This book, a trilogy based around the Troubles in Northern Ireland, set around 1984, is now obviously dated, but still retains a lot of the authentic feel of what it was like to live in the Province at that time. Mr. Power accurately portrays what characters from various sides of the conflict would have been thinking, though his portrayal of IRA godfather Seamus Reilly is perhaps a bit 'romanticised', especially his taste for classical music.
The first book in the trilogy can be heavy going at times, the character of Arthur Apple seeming starkly out-of-place and far-fetched, with the frequent interludes in the text to journey into his 'dreams' and visions eventually becoming more annoying than intriguing, but that aside this is an enjoyable story, which in it's latter section weaves the very real bombing of The Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party Conference of 1984 into the narrative.
Enjoyable if somewhat dated now, though Reilly's desire to see terrorists renounce violence in favour of the ballet box was, thankfully, a foreshadowing of what did actually take place in real life.
The first book in the trilogy can be heavy going at times, the character of Arthur Apple seeming starkly out-of-place and far-fetched, with the frequent interludes in the text to journey into his 'dreams' and visions eventually becoming more annoying than intriguing, but that aside this is an enjoyable story, which in it's latter section weaves the very real bombing of The Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party Conference of 1984 into the narrative.
Enjoyable if somewhat dated now, though Reilly's desire to see terrorists renounce violence in favour of the ballet box was, thankfully, a foreshadowing of what did actually take place in real life.
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