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£120.00
Collins 1st 1977
8vo, min splitting to 1/2 title at hinge, v v min crsing + 1 short tear to d/w, d/w sp v v sl sunned, not price-clipped, o/w VG++/VG++. Extremely rare in such a bright unpriceclipped d/w 590 gms 590 gms
(Order reference 4461).
When Lugh the Harper, son of a Roman fugitive and an Irish priestess in the second century AD, was driven from Connaught under a curse for having killed the Queen's anointed consort, he sought refuge at the court of her enemy, the High King of Ulster, and later among the Tuatha de Danaan, the so-called `fairy folk' who lived in the hollow hills.
Many years later he set down his story for the benefit of his honoured friend the Emperor Hadrian. It is a story of battle and love and carnage, of bitter feuds and acts of heroism such as are still part of Ireland's heritage today; a story of treachery in high places and loyalty that endured to the death; of Cuchulain, Champion of Ulster, and the famous Cattle Raid of Cooley, of Maeve of Connaught and Deirdre of the Sorrows, all narrated by a young man who was witness to the events which his subsequent retelling made famous in smoky halls of a winter's evening, ensuring their immortality.
It is a story to move hearts everywhere that respond to its humour and high seriousness; to fascinate those who long to know what the distant past was like; and to enthral all who are caught up in the joys and sorrows and strange changes of fortune which mark the young harper's life.
This remarkable first novel, so detailed in its background, so talented in its recreation of character and event, would be a noteworthy publishing occasion in any circumstances. That its author was seventeen when she wrote it singles it out as one of the most memorable literary debuts in the twentieth century.
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