Watching the Door : Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast

Name: Watching the Door
Brand: Atlantic Books
SKU: 9781843547297
Price: 1800 KES
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ISBN: 9781843547297

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by Kevin Myers

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1843547295

ISBN-13 9781843547297

Edition Main

Publisher Atlantic Books

Imprint Atlantic Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 1st, 2008

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 278 grams

Dimensions 19.80 x 13.00 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Ireland Biography: general Biography: general

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This exhilarating, savagely funny account of Northern Ireland's bloody civil war in the 1970s has the hallmark of an instant classic. 'Kevin Myers has produced a book that I couldn't put down... It isn't a good book. It's a bad book, bad and bold and brilliant.' Olivia O'Leary, The Irish Times

Watching the Door is the memoir of an ordinary young man who drifted into a war zone, made it his home and, somehow, emerged unscathed.

After Kevin Myers graduated from university in 1969, a chance job application landed him a position as a journalist in Belfast, reporting on the Troubles. There, he was absorbed quickly into the local community and became privy to the secrets of Protestant and Catholic paramilitaries alike. In his darkly funny account of life on the streets, Myers evokes with searing clarity a society on the brink of civil war. His memoir is a remarkable portrait of those divisions, from the dedicated violence of loyalist gangs and provos to the behaviour of paratroopers, squaddies, the local police force and the wider population. Raw, candid and courageous, Watching the Door recalls the bloodiest time in Northern Ireland''s recent past. It is a coming-of-age story like no other.

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