The Fall of Light

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Francis Foley is a proud stubborn man and cannot stand to be beholden to anyone. Quick to anger and slow to forgiveness it is his temper that one day costs his sons their home -- and their mother. This will not be the last of their losses however: as the four boys and their father embark on an odyssey to find untenanted land they can call their own their already diminished family is divided still further. But if a combination of choice and chance cause the five to separate and scatter each to their own road then a series of casual encounters and coincidences offer some hope for reunion and -- in Francis's case -- redemption. Set in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century The Fall of Light traces the footsteps of the five Foley men. With elegant elegiac prose Niall Williams guides his characters -- and his readers -- through hazard and hardship friendship love and death through to Europe America and Africa . . . and home again.