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Redemption Falls: A Novel
by Joseph O'Connor
from Free Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Hard read but worth the effort
  I loved Joe O'Connor's Star of the Sea so much that I was really looking forward to part two of his American/Irish trilogy but was disappointed at the tenuous link between the two books.
  Reading it was a hard slog and I wasn't too enamoured with his poetry, songs and posters scattered throughout the novel but it was insightful and I plowed on.
  The style of this novel made it difficult to keep up with the story as there are so many characters and it was hard to see how they connected.It wasn't... more info

• Expected A Little More
  Had I not spent last week reading "Star of the Sea," this may have been a 3.5. I have tried to convince myself that I would have liked this better had I waited a few months between the two, but I don't think that would have been the case.
  I can't argue that the writing is excellent. However, it just doesn't flow like "Star" did. Sometimes it is a bit too wordy and often the plot was hard to follow because of the jumping back and forth. It's funny to say that because "Star of the Sea" did the exact same... more info

• Redemption Falls, or Redemption Fails?
  Told in the myriad voices of those who bore witness to the events described herein, "Redemption Falls" is at once both historical fiction profiling the Irish experience during and after the American Civil War, and a lugubrious chronicle of the human condition under duress. As a student of the American Civil War, the Emerald Isle's Joseph O' Connor employs the presumed idiom of the period; his characters come to life as they chronicle events. The illiterate and semi-literate seem woefully so. The educated... more info

• Well worth a read
  I just finished this book last night and thought it so good that I am currently here writing my first review on amazon Ever.
  Simply put, This is book once started will not be put down.
  Excellent book. Worth every penny
  

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