A Border Station
$27.04
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2017
Summary
Reissue of the classic first novel from the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of My Left Foot.
‘Here is a … writer with immense confidence and vitality. He has an extraordinary feeling for place and landscape.’ - Jennifer Johnston
‘This is experience finely and skilfully distilled’ - Irish Times
‘Well-written and engrossing’ - Sunday Independent
‘These inter-connected stories are faultless in their execution and a delight to read’ - Su…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784162559 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784162558 |
| Author: | Shane Connaughton |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 127mm x 198mm |
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Shane Connaughton
Shane Connaughton is an acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and actor. His screenplay for My Left Foot was shortlisted for an Academy Award; the film won two acting Oscars. His short film, The Dollar Bottom (1980) won an Academy Award for Best Short Film. His published fiction includes A Border Station, which was a bestseller and was shortlisted for the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award in 1989, and the novel The Run of the Country, for which he also adapted the screenplay. Married Quarters is a sequel to A Border Station.
Originally from Cavan, Shane was brought up in a rural Garda Station on the Fermanagh border. He is married with two grown-up children.
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