The Crooked Cross by Brendan Kennelly (GT599)

Published 1989: Softcover / Very Good Condition

Pictorial stiff card covers. 124 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on covers. (GT599)

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This is the author's first novel which is set in Ireland and deals with the consequences of emigration on a Kerry village.

The Crooked Cross is a lyrical evocation of an Irish village facing a water crisis and coping with the desolation of emigration in rural Ireland of the 1950s.

Timothy Brendan Kennelly, usually known as Brendan Kennelly, was an Irish poet and novelist. He was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College Dublin until 2005. Following his retirement he was a professor emeritus at Trinity College. [Google Books]