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Joseph T. O'Connor

    Joseph O’Connor is a celebrated Irish author whose works are known for their profound insight into the human psyche and societal themes. His style is characterized by rich language and narrative mastery, drawing readers into complex stories. O’Connor often explores questions of identity, redemption, and the search for belonging in the world, with his characters navigating challenging life circumstances. His writing is considered a significant contribution to contemporary Irish literature.

    Redemption Falls
    • Redemption Falls

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      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.

      Redemption Falls2007
      3.5