Trinity
by Leon Uris | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 055325846x Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 055325846x Global Overview for this book
Registered by appaloosatb of Rochester, Minnesota USA on 7/19/2008
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This book was rescued at the end of the annual Friends of the Library book sale. Unsold books are thrown out, so I take the whole lot and pass them on through BookCrossing instead!
"Trinity brilliantly re-creates Ireland's struggle for independence - a saga of glories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies - as lived by a young Catholic rebel, Conor larkin, and the beautiful and valiant Protestant girl who defies her heritage to join herself to him and his cause.
Moving from Conor's tiny Donegal village, with its loving family ties, its warm friendships, its fierce loyalties, to the Bogside slums of Londonberry, to the teeming port city of Belfast, Uris paints a searing portrait of a beleaguered people divided by religion and wealth. On one side, the impoverished Catholic peasantry. On the other, the Protestant aristocracy - railroad tycoon Sir Frederick Weed and his headstrong daughter, Caroline, and the arrogant Hubble clan, landed gentry wielding tyrannical power over life and death."
Moving from Conor's tiny Donegal village, with its loving family ties, its warm friendships, its fierce loyalties, to the Bogside slums of Londonberry, to the teeming port city of Belfast, Uris paints a searing portrait of a beleaguered people divided by religion and wealth. On one side, the impoverished Catholic peasantry. On the other, the Protestant aristocracy - railroad tycoon Sir Frederick Weed and his headstrong daughter, Caroline, and the arrogant Hubble clan, landed gentry wielding tyrannical power over life and death."
Journal Entry 3 by Smilin-Heart at Bargain Books in Norfolk, Virginia USA on Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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