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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9781602833050 Edition: Unabridged Format: Unabridged ISBN: 1602833052 Label: BBC Audiobooks America Manufacturer: BBC Audiobooks America Number Of Items: 16 Publication Date: October 09, 2007 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America Studio: BBC Audiobooks America Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The story of an unforgettable romance, set in the aftermath of the Civil War, by the bestselling author of Star of the Sea! Having escaped an Irish famine only to become enmeshed in an American war, Eliza Duane Mooney sets out across the country on a mysterious quest. Stunning poetess Lucia-Cruz McLelland denies a host of suitors to cast her fate with James Con O'Keeffe, convict, revolutionary, and Acting Governor of the desolate Western township of Redemption Falls. Rebel guerilla Cole McLaurenson fuels his own gruesome Westward mission with the blind rage of an outlaw, while runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet turns resentment into grace. Their destinies collide with shocking consequences. Presented unabridged on 16 CDs. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Hard read but worth the effortI loved Joe O'Connor's Star of the Sea so much that I was really looking forward to part two of his American/Irish trilogy but was disappointed at the tenuous link between the two books. Reading it was a hard slog and I wasn't too enamoured with his poetry, songs and posters scattered throughout the novel but it was insightful and I plowed on. The style of this novel made it difficult to keep up with the story as there are so many characters and it was hard to see how they connected.It ... Read More Rating: - Expected A Little MoreHad I not spent last week reading "Star of the Sea," this may have been a 3.5. I have tried to convince myself that I would have liked this better had I waited a few months between the two, but I don't think that would have been the case. I can't argue that the writing is excellent. However, it just doesn't flow like "Star" did. Sometimes it is a bit too wordy and often the plot was hard to follow because of the jumping back and forth. It's funny to say that because "Star of the Sea" ... Read More Rating:  - Redemption Falls, or Redemption Fails?Told in the myriad voices of those who bore witness to the events described herein, "Redemption Falls" is at once both historical fiction profiling the Irish experience during and after the American Civil War, and a lugubrious chronicle of the human condition under duress. As a student of the American Civil War, the Emerald Isle's Joseph O' Connor employs the presumed idiom of the period; his characters come to life as they chronicle events. The illiterate and semi-literate seem woefully so. The educated ... Read More Rating: - Well worth a readI just finished this book last night and thought it so good that I am currently here writing my first review on amazon Ever. Simply put, This is book once started will not be put down. Excellent book. Worth every penny Rating: - A chorus of voices from the Old WestMid-Victorian melodrama, Western adventure, post-Civil War vigilantes, frontier squalor, and Irish American idolatry of escaped Fenians: these make up, in a kaleidoscopic, shape-shifting, ambitiously conveyed, and ultimately satisfying sequel to the Famine novel "Star of the Sea." O'Connor has traveled across America (see my review of his "Sweet Liberty") and captures the slightly formal, quaintly antiquated diction of 19c American journalism, poetasters, balladeers, bureaucrats, eyewitnesses, historians, and ... Read More 
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