The Run of the Country

New York, New York, USA: St. Martin's Press, 1992. BE5 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps, labels, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, half-title page, title page, last page, and back endpaper plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A coming-of-age story of a boy in a lnad of tragic politics. The story is set on the border of Ireland and Northern Ireland. He runs away from home to escape the stern discipline of his father, a police sergeant who patrols the volatile borderland between Protestant and Catholic counties. The young man roams the countryside by bicycle with a friend leading to smuggling goods across the border. He mbeets a girl and his life changes as he begins to turn back toward home and his father. This is a movie tie-in edition. The author is a winner of the Hennessy Award for New Irish Writing. By the author of "A Border Diary" and "A Border Station." The author was coauthor of the "My Left Foot" film screenplay and the author of the screenplay for film "The Playboys." 247p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.