Kyle Michel Sullivan

A Place of Safety-Derry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Derry, Northern Ireland, 1966 Partitioned from Ireland since 1921 and dominated by a Protestant majority, the Catholic minority has grown weary of the casual discrimination against it and has begun a push for equal rights. One- man-one-vote. Decent housing. Good jobs. The most basic of requests. Yet these are still too much to accept, for those in power. Protests, confrontations, and demonstrations erupt, growing more and more dangerous and violent. Caught in the middle of it all is Brendan Kinsella, a Catholic boy who is thought of as ... odd. The story begins with the murder of his father just days after his tenth birthday, but Brendan is not sorry the man is dead; he was a vicious drunk who kept the family in extreme poverty, so his absence will be better for them. However, the man was killed by a pair of Protestants, which makes him a martyr to Ireland and sets Brendan's mother, Bernadette, on an expanding path to Irish Nationalism. She drags his older brother, Eamonn, with her ... but Brendan is reluctant to fall in line. The third of her six children, he is quiet and observant, with an innate wariness and skepticism, and prefers to go his own way, even though that can lead him into trouble, on occasion. Bernadette constantly berates him as simple-minded, despite his knack for repairing just about anything, and seems unwilling to accept he just wants to form his own opinions. Through the next six years, despite his efforts to remain apart from the growing turmoil, Brendan gets caught up in the countless civil rights demonstrations in Derry; the Battle of Bogside, where Catholics forced the Protestant Police Force out of their neighborhood; the arrival of British troops to separate the warring factions; internment without trial; and Bloody Sunday, when Paratroopers massacred Catholic marchers. Mingled into this is Brendan's budding relationship with Joanna, a Protestant girl from a well-off family. A relationship that must be kept secret to prevent any reprisals. She is pretty, fun to be around, has a life of relative ease, and is certain she is bound for university. She helps him see there is more to this world than hate and distrust, that his hopes, wishes and dreams could become reality, and they might still find a place of safety, even as their world careens towards chaos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: KMSCB
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9798988757719
• Artikelnr.: 69796758

Autorenporträt

Kyle Michel Sullivan is a writer and self-involved artist out to change the world until it changes him, as has already happened in far too many ways. He used to write screenplays, but now he has written books that range from sunshine and light (David Martin) to cold and dark (How To Rape A Straight Guy, which has been banned a couple of times) to flat out crazy (The Lyons' Den) to mainstream (The Alice '65) to a tale of tragedy and redemption (Bobby Carapisi). He has ventured into SF-Horror-Suspense with The Beast in the Nothing Room, done gay revenge in Porno Manifesto and worked up a vicious female revenge thriller in Carli's Kills, then taken Capitalism to its logical extreme in Hunter. He has also written murder mysteries (Rape in Holding Cell 6, The Vanishing of Owen Taylor, and Underground Guy), and is working on an erotic gay vampire series titled Blood Angel, that will be in several e-book parts.Most of his novels are gay-oriented but not all. Many contain intense sexual content that fits the erotica category, but not all. Some are even romantic and tender. As he says, he's written what he's written, and each one of those books got him one step closer to this point. He tries to build characters as vivid and real as possible and has a lot of fun doing it mixed with angst, anger, and amazement ... but that's the lot of a writer.