Synopsis
Set during the General Strike, this powerful novel centres upon the hopes and aspirations of the Fury family who have struggled all their lives against tremendous social and financial pressures. Fanny Fury, a kindly but possessive woman, has pinned all her hopes on her youngest son, Peter, who is training for the priesthood. Now, seven years later, and in disgrace, he comes back to face her pain and rage. When her other son returns, crippled in an accident at sea, the resentments and bitterness that the Furys have suffered, as individuals, and as a family over the years, come to the surface and threaten to overwhelm them.
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Almost all biographies give James Hanley's dates as 1901 to 1985. The date of his death is not in doubt, but as his son, Liam Hanley, has recently established he was born in 1897, and in Liverpool not Dublin as previously thought. James Hanley was a novelist and playwright. His output was prodigious: in addition to the five novels in the Furys sequence being reissued by Faber Finds, he wrote about twenty-five novels, sixteen volumes of short stories, six plays and seven books of miscellaneous writings. His early life was adventurous. He joined the merchant navy when seventeen (his sea-faring days were formative), jumped ship in Canada, joined the Canadian Army, fought in the First World War, and was gassed before returning to Liverpool in 1918. His novel, Boy, achieved notoriety when it was suppressed for obscenity in the 1930s. The unexpurgated edition is now in print with Oneworld Classics.
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