The Bureau
a gritty tale of love and death in Northern Ireland
$31.27
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2025
Summary
Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that he was occupying the room in a different way, he found the spaces that fitted him. She was the kind of girl the papers called vivacious, always a bit of dazzle to her.
Could she not see there was death about him? Could he not see there was death about her? Paddy worked the border, a place of road closures, hijackings, sudden death. Everything bootleg and tawdry, nobody is saying tha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529440430 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529440432 |
| Author: | Eoin McNamee |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 233mm x 153mm |
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Critics Review
It’s a great book…the underlying menace, the threats, the ghostliness, and the border as a character itself. It’s searing, elegaic, haunting, poetic, scary. And sad. – Anna Burns For over thirty years, Eoin McNamee has been one of the outstanding writers of his generation. The Bureau is his most personal and heartbreaking novel yet, and stands shoulder to shoulder with hisfinest work. – David Peace
About The Author
Eoin McNamee
Eoin McNamee is the author of eight novels including Resurrection Man, later filmed, and the Blue Trilogy. His work has been nominated for and won many major prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, the Kerry Fiction Prize, the Imison Award and the CWA Steel Dagger. Liam McIllvaney said of McNamee’s prose that it has the ‘cadenced majesty of McCarthy or DeLillo, but the vision it enacts is all his own.’
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