Emerald Underground
Summary
The breakthorugh novel from a prodigiously gifted young Irish writer. April, 1981. New York. A young Irishman, Liam is in hiding, waiting until the dreadful act in which he has had to participate becomes public knowledge, forced to keep it a secret because he is an illegal immigrant. In this, his 2nd novel, Michael Collins writes his characteristic rawness and anger about the Irish in 80's America, as he gives the lie to notion that they were that country's favourite sons' but also, in a novel of maturity and rare beauty, he brings a new poignancy to our understanding of the emigrant experience and of the loneliness of not belonging
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