· An excerpt from “The Abstainer,” by Ian McGuire. Learn what you should be reading this fall: Our collection of reviews on books coming out Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · Moving from the dirt and uproar of industrial Manchester to the quiet hills of rural Pennsylvania, The Abstainer is a searing novel in which two men, haunted by their pasts and driven forward by the need for justice and retribution, must fight Brand: Random House Publishing Group. · In an epic tale of revenge and obsession, master storyteller Ian McGuire once again transports readers to a time when blood begot blood. Moving from the gritty streets of Manchester to the rolling hills of Pennsylvania, The Abstainer is a searing novel in which two men, motivated by family, honor and revenge, must fight for life and legacy/5.
The Abstainer by Ian McGuire. In my reading life, there are a handful of writers whose next novel I anxiously await. In , I read the rollicking, adventure-filled historical thriller The North Water. With that, its author Ian McGuire became another to add to my list. The Abstainer is his third work of fiction. The experience with The Abstainer is much different than McGuire's previous novel, and this is a good thing. The novel starts in Manchester, England in with the true event of three Irish Republican Brotherhood members being hanged outside of New Bailey Prison for the murder of a Manchester police sergeant. The Abstainer: by Ian McGuire. Imagine yourself tossed out of your already divided native land to work to defend the laws set down by the rulers of that land, but now on their own turf. Head Constable James O'Connor seeks to abstain from drink, which led to his downfall in Dublin. In the aftermath of the hanging of three Irish rebels in
Moving from the dirt and uproar of industrial Manchester to the quiet hills of rural Pennsylvania, The Abstainer is a searing novel in which two men, haunted by their pasts and driven forward by the need for justice and retribution, must fight for life and legacy. Related collections and offers. McGuire draws on these events for his third novel The Abstainer, a followup to ’s Booker-longlisted The North Water. He begins on the eve of the three men’s execution. The book’s conclusion is cleverly understated, leading us away from the penultimate act, a final spectacle of gore McGuire is always a pleasure—and horror—to read, and The Abstainer is without question a very fine book in and of itself: darkly compelling, with its polished prose and snappy dialogue. And yet, read after its predecessor, it strikes one—despite the dread and fog and blood—as safe, as if its author has too readily returned to a winning formula.
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