Shade

Jordan, Neil

ISBN 10: 0719561868 / ISBN 13: 9780719561863

Published by John Murray and Hodder Headline Ireland, London, 2004

About this Item

First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. From the collection of Dr. Coline (Kitty) Covington (1953-2023), a distinguished Jungian psychoanalyst and former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council, ownership penned to FEP. Jacket is sunned. Edges are creased and nicked, with a small tear at the rear upper edge. Board spine ends are slightly bumped. Page block and page edges are lightly tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW.

Seller Inventory # 618360

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shade
• Publisher: John Murray and Hodder Headline Ireland, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719561868
• ISBN 13: 9780719561863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Book by Jordan, Neil

Review

We know from the earliest pages of Neil Jordan's numinous, slow-building fourth novel, Shade that its narrator, 50-old Nina Hardy, has been murdered with a pair of gardening shears by her childhood friend George Truite. The mystery is not who has committed this crime, but why. And although George has been for some years a resident of the local insane asylum, only recently allowed to experiment again with independent living, his madness is but a small part of the answer to that question. Set in Ireland near Drogheda, at the mouth of the river Boyne, Shade casts a wistful eye on childhood desires and alliances, and its lonely-girl-in-a-big-house beginnings will call to mind William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault. But like Jordan's greatest success, the film The Crying Game, this novel is full of surprises--and the biggest shocks are not always the most telling. --Jill Harvey