Books Books
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 144
ISBN: 9781854116475
Publication date: October 26, 2012
Price: £8.99
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Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 144
ISBN: 9781781720110
Publication date: October 26, 2012
Price: £7.19
Out of stock
‘It seemed as if the whole town had died.’
Sean O’Brien left his wife and son in County Tyrone to find work as a collier in the South Wales Valleys. Years later Niamh O’Brien is dying and sends her son Jack on a quest to find out what became of his father. Sean ‘Tyrone’s’ last letter came from ‘somewhere called Aberuffern’. The brilliantly evoked valleys town of Aberuffern (the mouth of hell) becomes the central motif of this short novel, inspired by the Mexican novel Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo.
Sean Tyrone – A Symphony of Horrors is based on a play of the same name by author, musician and playwright Mark Ryan and tells the story of Jack’s odyssey from child to man and from inexperience to manhood. This is lively, blackly humorous and intelligent storytelling.
The beautifully produced paperback includes a series of 20 woodcuts also created by Mark Ryan.
Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan (1959 – 2011) first came to fame is a British guitarist who played in various punk bands during the late 1970s, including Adam and the Ants. He later turned his interest in performance to the theatre and began a successful career as a writer for the stage, based in Cardiff. The author of The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde As Told To Carl Jung By An Inmate Of Broadmoor Asylum, he also wrote stage plays for children which have been touring for a number of years. Mark died in 2011, as he was finalising the text for this novel.
