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stephdavis 's review for:
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
I would read/listen to anything Keefe writes. I already had high expectations after ‘Empire of Pain’, and they were definitely met, it not exceeded.
Keefe describes this novel as “narrative non-fiction” and in doing so has helped me define a genre that I particularly enjoy. By using the disappearance of McConville as an anchor, he paints a fascinating, while harrowing, picture of Ireland in the late 1900s into the early 2000s.
This is precisely the history that we should be taught in English classrooms but I had never heard of any of it. The British (shock horror) still have a lot to answer for.
Keefe describes this novel as “narrative non-fiction” and in doing so has helped me define a genre that I particularly enjoy. By using the disappearance of McConville as an anchor, he paints a fascinating, while harrowing, picture of Ireland in the late 1900s into the early 2000s.
This is precisely the history that we should be taught in English classrooms but I had never heard of any of it. The British (shock horror) still have a lot to answer for.