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Belios / Órfhlaith Foyle.

By: Publication details: Dublin : The Lilliput Press, 2005.Description: 200 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1843510677 : (Pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 823
Summary: Narrator Noah Gilmore is researching the biography of William Belios, an ex-missionary and once-famous photographer, and spends a week in his household at Outghterard, Co. Galway. Belios is Gilmore's nemesis, his quarry, mirroring his own desires and uncertainties, as he determines to unearth family secrets: the dead wife buried in Africa and the blighted lives of three grown-up children. The eldest, Medb, an erotic illustrator, guides Gilmore down the labyrinth. Their futures demand an erasure of a troubled past as its layers are unpeeled and its perverse roots become exposed. - Book cover.
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Loanable Book Library Irish Collection 823 FOY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000215557

Narrator Noah Gilmore is researching the biography of William Belios, an ex-missionary and once-famous photographer, and spends a week in his household at Outghterard, Co. Galway. Belios is Gilmore's nemesis, his quarry, mirroring his own desires and uncertainties, as he determines to unearth family secrets: the dead wife buried in Africa and the blighted lives of three grown-up children. The eldest, Medb, an erotic illustrator, guides Gilmore down the labyrinth. Their futures demand an erasure of a troubled past as its layers are unpeeled and its perverse roots become exposed. - Book cover.

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