| Description |
309 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of Ireland. Things are falling apart. Ireland is in the grip of a government that is taking a turn towards tyranny. And as the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society assailed by unpredictable forces beyond her control and forced to do whatever it takes to keep her family together. Exhilarating, terrifying, propulsive and confrontational, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality and devastating insight, a novel that can be read as a parable of the present, the future and the past. |
| Subject |
Labor union members -- Fiction.
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Dictatorship -- Fiction.
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Fascism -- Fiction.
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Scientists -- Fiction.
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Suspense fiction.
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Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Dystopian fiction.
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9780861545902 |
| ISBN |
9780861546862 |
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0861546865 |
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9780861546459 hardcover |
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0861546458 hardcover |
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9780861545902 electronic publication |
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