True Believers

Name: True Believers
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Joseph O'Connor

Jan 2011 · Random House

2 reviews

Ebook

224

Pages

Eligible

About this ebook

True Believers introduces us to a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and runaway wives. Here are jokers and fanatics, punks and poets, thinkers and drinkers, chancers and killers. Here are the true believers, all clinging desperately to some kind of faith in a mutable and dangerous world.

True Believers introduces us to a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and runaway wives. Here are jokers and fanatics, punks and poets, thinkers and drinkers, chancers and killers. He...

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2 reviews

Ern Reeders

June 12, 2023

Writes like an angel.

About the author

JOSEPH O’CONNOR was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Nielsen Golden Book Award, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book 2011), Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist) and the previous books of his Rome Escape Line trilogy, My Father’s House (Hot Press Novel of the Year 2023) and The Ghosts of Rome (Irish Book Awards Book of the Year 2025). His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 was appointed Frank McCourt Professor and Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

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JOSEPH O’CONNOR was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, Nielsen Golden Book Award, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year...

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