FIC DELANEY Ireland : a novel by Frank Delaney.
The person who last returned this book to the library asked us to recommend it to everyone as an engrossing "story about a storyteller." And novel or not, full of intriguing Irish history.
Interesting - Scott Simon on NPR refered to it as a "story about a story." It begins ...
Wonderfully, it was the boy who saw him first. He glanced out of his bedroom window, then looked again and harder -- and dared to hope. No, it was not a trick of the light; a tall figure in a ragged black coat and a ruined old hat was walking down the darkening hillside; and he was heading toward the house ...Posted by library at January 22, 2006 07:06 PM