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Buy this book on-line KEANE,FERGAL: : All of These People:a Memoir.[Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS,2005. ISBN 0007176929.
UK,8vo hB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.
No owner inscrptn,but author's black ink inscrptn,dedication and signature: 'To Andrew, Best wishes Fergal Keane.' to title-page,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,
crisp,clean,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark brown cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,plain taupe eps.8vo,vii-xvipp+
1-396pp [paginated] includes contents+
illustrations lists/tables,prologue,22 chapters,epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp112/3 and pp272/3 respectively,acknowlwedgements,and index, plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title-page,dedication and 4pp blanks to rear.
Award-winning journalist Fergal Keane's memoir is the account of an extraordinary journey,a story about bearing witness to horror but also confronting the ghosts within.At its heart is the story of a son's journey in search of his father and the reconciliation that is possible even after death.
In this beautifully written book, filled with power and candour,Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds,some very public and others acutely personal.Often deeply moving and painful,but equally often ruefully funny,he describes intimately a life uneasily shadowed by the sceptre of alcohol.
As the nephew of a famous writer and son to a much-loved actor his was a family of storytellers, from whom Keane inherited a love of words and adventure.Growing up in Ireland in the 60's and 70's the country of myth and reverence was being dismantled in front of his eyes with the first stirrings of a sexual revolution; later he became a cub reporter in an atmosphere filled with the smells of drink and cloudy with cigarette smoke,then
followed his childhood dream to go to Africa.
Here he witnessed the violence of the South African townships and the terror in Rwanda, the most extreme kinds of human behaviour.
Keane's life as one of Britain's leading war reporters is all that we imagine: journeys across landscapes traumatised by death and hunger,encounters with some of the most evil figures of the last half century.Life in such vulnerable areas of the globe is emotionally draining,but can be illuminated with astonishing moments of
camaraderie and human bravery.And so this
is also a memoir of the human connections,
at once simple and complex,that are made in extreme circumstance.
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