Rising Of The Moon - Hardcover

Martin, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517563150 ISBN 13: 9780517563151

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, 1989

Synopsis

As Irish rebel Padraic Starr runs guns from Boston to the Galway coast in preparation for the Easter Rebellion, he urges his cousin Tom Tracy to return to Ireland to avenge a murder

About this title

About the Author:

WILLIAM MARTIN, New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, is best known for his historical fiction, which has chronicled the lives of the great and the anonymous in American history while bringing to life legendary American locations, from Cape Cod to Annapolis. Martin's first novel, Back Bay, introduced Boston treasure hunter Peter Fallon, who continues to track artifacts across the landscape of our national imagination in more recent works like City of Dreams. Other Martin novels, such as Harvard Yard, Citizen Washington, and The Lost Constitution have established him as a "storyteller whose smoothness equals his ambition" (Publishers Weekly).

Martin has also written an award-winning PBS documentary and one of the cheesiest horror movies ever made. He was the recipient of the 2005 New England Book Award, given to "an author whose body of work stands as a significant contribution to the culture of the region." There are more than three million copies of his books in print. William Martin has three grown children and lives near Boston with his wife.

From Library Journal:

A beautiful, impassioned Zionist, a rising young politician, and an Irish rebel set sail from Boston harbor in a ship loaded with guns and ammunition to play their part in the Irish rebellion of Easter Sunday, 1916. Rich in historical detail, The Rising of the Moon gives us a Boston teeming with life and spirit, a Boston invigorated by the influx of immigrants, people like the Irish, all fighting for a place in the new world. Martin is an accomplished writer, effectively contrasting these Irish Americans with their kin in the old country, kept alive by the spirit of a centuries-old rebellion: two groups that for all their differences, unite for a common cause. This is a stimulating and moving tale, full of action and passion, and sure to have wide appeal. Recommended. Lydia Burruel Johnson, Mesa P.L., Ariz.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0517563150
• ISBN 13: 9780517563151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 474