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The End of the Hunt, by Thomas Flanagan
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Publication Date: April 5, 2016 (e-book only)
Pages: 628
Originally published in 1994.
The third book in a loose trilogy that includes The Year of the French and The Tenants of Time.
Set in Ireland at the time of the Troubles, during the watershed year of 1919, Thomas Flanagan’s epic The End of the Hunt chronicles the years following World War I, in which the British attempted to put down once and for all the centuries-old dream of an independent Ireland.
On the pages of this gripping novel, we are transported from the smoky pubs of Dublin, where men argue eloquently but action has the final word, to the Irish countryside, where lonely roads become paths to the grave as fast as a rifle shot; from stately manors, where an ancient way of life is threatened, to the gleaming London conference table, where men like Lloyd George and Winston Churchill play games of power, tainting the triumph of their Irish opponents; through the painful dilemmas and grievous losses of men and women for whom old certainties have been splintered and new sides must be chosen. The End of the Hunt is fiction of a very high order. It brings us face-to-face with history as it was made, and life as it was given and lost.