The Destruction of the Inn (The Ulster cycle)

Eickhoff, Randy Lee

ISBN 10: 0312870264 / ISBN 13: 9780312870263

Published by Forge Book/ Tom Doherty Associates, 2001

About this Item

Very good condition used 2001 First Edition Hardback with intact Dust Jacket, published by: A Forge Book/ Tom Doherty Associates, NY, USA. Author: Randy Lee Eickhoff. ISBN: 0312870264. Approx dims: 215mm h x 150mm w x 22mm d. Intact clean glossy condition dust jacket with slight creasing to edges and signs of handling. Intact spine. DJ over very good condition grey boards. 238 clean/ slightly off white pages of English text, no inscriptions. Image shown is actual book for sale. Synopsis: ''Acclaimed historian and storyteller Randy Lee Eickhoff continues his modern translation of Ireland's most thrilling legends with THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INN. Part myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force, Eickhoff again brings to life the Ulster Cycle.''.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1490948130001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Destruction of the Inn (The Ulster cycle)
• Publisher: Forge Book/ Tom Doherty Associates
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312870264
• ISBN 13: 9780312870263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Novels

About this title

Synopsis

Randy Lee Eickhoff continues the Celtic Ulster Cycle; following up his highly acclaimed retelling of The Three Sorrows, with The Destruction of the Inn. Part impacted myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force; this is the tale of a king who dares to ignore the prophecy that foretells his fate.

Conaire Mór's reign has ushered in a period of great happiness and good fortune, but his three foster brothers take advantage of his position and plunder the countryside. Conaire refuses to put them to death, however, and out of brotherly love banishes them to Scotland. Where they fall in with merciless sea pirates who raid the coasts of England and Ireland, brutally slaying all whom stands against them, until finally the three brothers come back to the land of Conaire Mór.

Filled with the adventure and tragedy, and told in the style that Randy Lee Eickhoff has made his own, The Destruction of the Inn is a story of Ireland's past, and one of her most enduring tales.

About the Author

Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on translations in several languages, poetry, plays, and novels of which two have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ireland's national epic is now a text in not only schools in the United States, but countries overseas as well. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest History Award. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.