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Title	:	The Heather Blazing
Author	:	Colm Tóibín
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 243 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2008 by Picador USA (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature. Literary Fiction. Literature. 20th Century. Historical. Historical Fiction

The Heather Blazing

Colm Tóibín

Paperback | Pages: 243 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 1804 Users | 203 Reviews

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The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late twentieth century. Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court. Obsessed all his life by the letter and spirit of the law, he is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Toibin reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships - with his father, his first "girl, " his wife, and the children who barely know him. He gives us a family as minutely realized as any of John McGahern's, and he writes about Eamon's affection for the landscape of his childhood on the east coast of Ireland with such skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel that ensnares us with its emotional intensity and dazzles with its crystalline prose. In The Heather Blazing, Colm Toibin displays once again the gifts that illuminated The South, a book described by Don DeLillo as "a grand achievement, " and by John Banville as "a daring imaginative feat...a splendid first novel."

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Original Title:	The Heather Blazing
ISBN:	0330321250 (ISBN13: 9780330321259)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.picador.com/books/the-heather-blazing
Literary Awards:	RSL Encore Award (1993)

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Weighed in the balances...On the last day of the legal term, High Court judge Eamon Redmond will deliver a judgement and then head off for the summer to Cush on the coast of County Wexford, where he has spent all his summers since childhood. Outwardly he is a successful man, well respected in the country, an advisor to the government, and someone who takes the responsibility of his position seriously. But he is also reserved, his life ruled by order, and somewhat remote even from his closest

This is a book about the silences that occur between people and the difficulties of really knowing someone,even a spouse, when that person is very reticent to talk about their inner feelings and life-changing experiences. I don't know if growing up in an Irish Catholic family, as I did, helped in my appreciation of this book, but it certainly resonated for me. The main character, a judge, is dealing with memories about his relationship with his father, his father's debilitating stroke, the

This was one of those quietly powerful books where the main protagonist floats through life as if he was forever caught in a glass bowl looking out yet unable to be truly part of other peoples deepest feelings and thoughts. He often hints on the fact that hed like to engage, understand and be a part of his familys emotional bond yet falters at every step of the way ... until it is almost too late. Melancholic and oppressively sad at times but well worth a read nevertheless.

3.5Now that I've read all of Toibin's novels to date, I can see how this one, his second, led to his later works, especially The Blackwater Lightship, which I loved. That's also what I said of his first novel, The South and his third, The Story of the Night; but I think it's even more true here, as I also found echoes that resonate in his later short-story collections.There are not only themes he will go on to more fully develop later, but his way of getting into a character through seemingly

I found a copy of this novel when I was cleaning out my bookshelves and realized that Id never read (it was published over 20 years ago). In the few days before Christmas when I was on leave, I sat in the backyard and found myself immersed in this book. Spoilers ahead.Eamon Redmond is a senior judge in Dublin. The book opens on the last day of a session of court before the holidays. The tone is subdued, quiet, as Eamon thinks about the coming holiday at the beach where his family has been going

This is a beautifully written book. I return to it over and over. Toibins prose is magical.Some people didnt like the judge character, Redmond. I thought he was an interesting and complex character. The book tells the story of Eamon Redmond, an Irish High Court judge. It flashes between his childhood and his later life. He lives in a small Wexford village as a child. Redmond is a staunch member of Fianna Fail. De Valera and Haughey ( both Fianna Fáil leaders) feature in the book.Early in the

The Heather Blazing is a superlatively quiet novel set in the Wexford Coast, Ireland, about the resonance of childhood memories and losses that continue to reverberate through adult life. The key character is Éamon Redmond, a revered judge who retreats each summer at the end of the law term to a cliff-side house in Cush with his wife (Carmel). Cush is where Éamon and his single-parent dad spent their summer every year when Éamon was a boy. There is a soothing calm that comes from just reading