Joseph O'Connor
2) The salesman
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A young woman is beaten into a coma during a store robbery in Dublin and one of the robbers escapes justice. So her father, salesman Bill Sweeney, takes the law into his hands. He tracks the robber through Dublin's underworld, abducts and torments him. But the robber turns the tables on his captor. By the author of Cowboys and Indians.
3) Shadowplay
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker to manage it. As Irving's...
4) Ghost light
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A collaborative effort between W. B. Yeats and resident playwright John Synge at the Abbey Theatre in 1907 gives way to a barrier-breaking affair with teen actress Molly Allgood, who after World War II looks back on her career and the great love of her life.