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Fox Swallow Scarecrow: A Dublin Novel
Fox Swallow Scarecrow: A Dublin Novel
Fox Swallow Scarecrow: A Dublin Novel
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Fox Swallow Scarecrow: A Dublin Novel

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Anna Kelly Sweeney is a writer of popular fiction intent on worldly success. Leo is an idealist who lives in rural County Kerry and devotes himself to poetry, culture and innumerable worthy causes. When Anna falls in love with the handsome and enigmatic Vincy, and Leo with the troubled publicist Kate, the consequences of their glimpsed happiness reverberate beyond their own insulated world.

Inspired by Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, this panoramic and compulsively readable novel is a brilliant satire on the Dublin literary scene and on the Celtic Tiger and its impact on Irish society. If you enjoyed Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow, you might also enjoy Eílís Ní Dhuibhne’s novel The Dancers Dancing and her short story collection The Shelter of Neighbours.

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Release dateApr 2, 2012
ISBN9780856400308
Fox Swallow Scarecrow: A Dublin Novel
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Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Eilis Ni Dhuibhne was born in Dublin. She was educated at University College Dublin and has a BA in English and a PhD in Irish Folklore. She worked for many years as a librarian and archivist in the National Library of Ireland and now teaches on the MA for Creative Writing at University College Dublin and for the Faber Writing Academy. She is a member of Aosdana. The author of more than twenty books, including five collections of short stories, several novels, children's books, plays and many scholarly articles and literary reviews, her work includes The Dancers Dancing, Fox Swallow Scarecrow, and The Shelter of Neighbours.

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