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Title	:	Redemption Falls
Author	:	Joseph O'Connor
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	May 3rd 2007 by Harvill Secker
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland. Literature

Redemption Falls

Joseph O'Connor

Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 3.47 | 950 Users | 138 Reviews

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1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a young boy she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary.

It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole McLaurenson, runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet and the mercurial revolutionary James Con O'Keeffe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army and is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems.

Redemption Falls is a tale of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. Packed with music, balladry, poetry and storytelling, this is a riveting historical novel of urgent contemporary resonance, from the author of the internationally bestselling Star of the Sea.

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Original Title:	Redemption Falls
ISBN:	0436205696 (ISBN13: 9780436205699)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Metų verstinė knyga Nominee (2009)

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Excellent, but brutal, tale of the Irish in America in the years following the Civil War. O'Connor paints a 'warts and all' picture of Irish men and women on the wild frontier lands: domestic violence, drunkenness, rape, murder, insurrection, betrayal abound, mixed with occasional mercy, generosity and forgiveness. Constructed as a series of collected documents and memories of an Irish scholar researching his own family, this a thoroughly immersive experience which packs a number of shocks and

Redemption Falls (is the title ironic?) is a powerful novel whose de facto setting is the eponymous township, just after the end of the American Civil War. It's probably misleading to claim O'Connor's book is "about" any one character: the major players are all important and contribute to the O. Henry-like conclusion.Many readers have found Redemption Falls confusing and unreadable - persevere! O'Connor mixes the styles considerably, but each part, each chapter advances the whole, presenting not

I started this book in March 2010 but couldn't get through it... I started this book again in April 2011 and finally I got it! In the beginning I had to look up some of the details about the Civil war but once I refreshed my historical knowledge it was easier to read. It did take a long time for me to get through the book because I had to get used to all the different characters and the way he writes from one personage to another. But when all the pieces of this puzzle started falling into place

Not an easy read and maybe not for everyone - the story is told through a variety of written mediums: newspaper articles, reports, recollections recorded years after the facts, poems, some narrative. There are a lot of characters and, with the exceptions of one or two, I had difficulty warming up to most of them. But I did persevere and, like many of the commenters here, I found it worth the effort. I have read Star of the Sea - and there is really no connection between the two books.

This is an incredibly lyrical book, centering around James "Con" O'Keefe and his wife Lucia. Sent to New Zealand for his part in agitating for Irish home rule, he escapes and makes his way to America where he rises to the rank of general in the Union army during the civil war. He then assumes governership of part of the Western territories, and it is at this point that most of the story unfolds. The novel reminds one of a scrapbook at times rather than a single-threaded story line.

I was so looking forward to this book but after 200 pages, I just about tossed it across the room. Written by Joseph O'Connor..of Star Of The Sea fame. This book is supposed to be a sequel of sorts to Star...but after 200 pages there were only a few references to what took place in the first book. Same writing style but with this one, I could not get used to it and never knew who was speaking.

Redemption Falls is an epic Reconstruction era set novel based around the fate of a mute Confederate boy soldier and an former convict Irish aggitator turned Union General Con O'Keeffe and by extension those lives and histories that they are connected to. The setting for the novel is the USA's painful recovery from the Civil War and this mixture of healing wounds and unrepairable damage both to the physicallity, the psyche and the very fabric of American society is at the the heart of the