Connaughton The Run Of The Country

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Connaughton, Shane: The Run of the Country, New York, New York, USA St. Martin's Press 1992
ISBN: 0312070772 Very Good

BE5 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps, labels, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, half-title page, title page, last page, and back endpaper plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A coming-of-age story of a boy in a lnad of tragic politics. The story is set on the border of Ireland and Northern Ireland. He runs away from home to escape the stern discipline of his father, a police sergeant who patrols the volatile borderland between Protestant and Catholic counties. The young man roams the countryside by bicycle with a friend leading to smuggling goods across the border. He mbeets a girl and his life changes as he begins to turn back toward home and his father. This is a movie tie-in edition. The author is a winner of the Hennessy Award for New Irish Writing. By the author of "A Border Diary" and "A Border Station." The author was coauthor of the "My Left Foot" film screenplay and the author of the screenplay for film "The Playboys." 247p. First American Edition Very Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ex-Library

[SW: Literature Literary Fiction Ireland Irish WriterFiction: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction::General Fiction Literature::Literary Novels Fiction::Modern Fiction Firsts Fiction::Movie & TV Tie-Ins]

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Connaughton, Shane: The Run of the Country : A Novel, New York, New York, USA Picador USA 1995
ISBN: 0312135998 Very Good

BE5 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. A coming-of-age story of a boy in a land of tragic politics. The story is set on the border of Ireland and Northern Ireland. He runs away from home to escape the stern discipline of his father, a police sergeant who patrols the volatile borderland between Protestant and Catholic counties. The young man roams the countryside by bicycle with a friend leading to smuggling goods across the border. He meets a girl and his life changes as he begins to turn back toward home and his father. This is a movie tie-in edition. The author is a winner of the Hennessy Award for New Irish Writing. By the author of "A Border Diary" and "A Border Station" and the coauthor of the "My Left Foot" screenplay as well as the author for the screenplay for "The Playboys." 247p. No Jacket as Issued Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: Literature Literary Fiction Ireland Irish WriterFiction::General Fiction Literature::Literary Novels Literature::Irish Literature Fiction::Movie & TV Tie-Ins]

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Connaughton, Shane: The Run of the Country, New York, NY, U.S.A. Saint Martin's Press, LLC 1992
ISBN: 0312070772 Fine

By the author of the screenplay, "My Left Foot". Very small rub at bottom of spine and a bit of scuffing on front. The book has not been opened, much less read. Fine in near fine jacket, protected with mylar cover. First Edition Near Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Connaughton, Shane: The Run of the Country, New York St. Martin's Press 1992
ISBN: 0-312-07077-2 Very Good

247 pp. First printing thus. One corner is slightly bumped. The jacket has three small (< 1") closed tears at folds. A novel of "youth and Ireland." First American Edition Near Very Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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