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D.P. Costello
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The Rag Tree: A novel of Ireland |
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English |
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Paperback |
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392 |
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2009-05-05 |
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1439228310 |
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BookSurge Publishing |
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1.05 pounds |
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7.87 x 0.87 x 5.16 inches |
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Product Description
D.P. Costello’s spellbinding novel, The Rag Tree, breathes dark, vivid life into Ireland’s passionate legends. Crisp and sharp-witted, Costello’s tale probes a modern Ireland torn between letting go of time-honored dreams and embracing the promises of a prosperous New Ireland. Even as they struggle against one another, the Irish Special Branch, the British Army, Scotland Yard, and the I.R.A. find themselves forced to ally against a common foe: The Rag Man. Mattie Joe Treacy is the Rag Man. Engrossed in a desperate quest to find his missing father, Mattie Joe is cursed—by the playboy’s life of drink and carousing, by his family’s staunch adherence to Ireland’s old folk ways, and by a family curse hurled at his clan generations ago. The Curse of the O’Neills, invoked by an angry cleric against Mattie Joe’s great-grandfather, declares that, “the eldest son will not survive the father.” No Treacy son has since outlived his father, and Mattie Joe is next in line to die. Or is he?
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