Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1997 • Knopf

Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane U.S. FIRST EDITION [1997] ALFRED A KNOPF. 4th printing / 1997.  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  Some creasing to dust jacket; but otherwise looks very nice. Housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.   *Note - blue stains on edges of dust jacket are decorative and part of the jacket art.   Book itself is excellent; tight, clean boards.  Pages read as new.  A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Guardian Fiction PrizeWinner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International AwardHugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through