![]() ![]() ![]() The killing goes on as I write, the tribes of the Falls Road and the Shankill still locked in ancient bloody argument. ![]() In this novel, which begins in the 19th century and ends in 1916, he has chpsen to tell the tale of modern Ireland that choice is itself audacious. Uris is certainly not as good a writer as Pynchon or Barthelme or Nabokov but he is a better storyteller. None of that matters as you are swept along in the narrative. is a simple thing to point out that Uris often writes crudely, that his dialogue can be wooden, that his structure occasionally groans under the excess baggage of exposition and information. The subject is man, not words story is all, the form it takes is secondary. Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human. ![]()
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