The Devil I Know - SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED FIRST PRINTING

Kilroy, Claire

ISBN 10: 0571283438 / ISBN 13: 9780571283439

Published by Faber and Faber, 2013

About this Item

Fine first printing in soft cover. As new, unread copy. Signed, dated and located 'Claire Kilroy Hay Festival 2024' to the title page, without further inscription. As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil I Know - SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571283438
• ISBN 13: 9780571283439
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

** SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW**There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mileHe made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pileHe dug a crooked holeAnd he sank the crooked isleAnd they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile.The Devil I Know is a thrilling novel of greed and hubris, set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis. Told by Tristram, in the form of a mysterious testimony, it recounts his return home after a self-imposed exile only to find himself trapped as a middle man played on both sides - by a grotesque builder he's known since childhood on the one hand, and a shadowy businessman he's never met on the other. Caught between them, as an overblown property development begins in his home town of Howth, it follows Tristram's dawning realisation that all is not well.From a writer unafraid to take risks, The Devil I Know is a bold, brilliant and disturbing piece of storytelling.

About the Author

Claire Kilroy's debut novel All Summer was described in The Times as 'compelling ... a thriller, a confession and a love story framed by a meditation on the arts', and was awarded the 2004 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Her second novel, Tenderwire was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. It was followed, in 2009, by the highly acclaimed novel, All Names Have Been Changed. Educated at Trinity College, she lives in Dublin.