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Reading in the Dark Information
308 words, approx. 1 pages
 Reading in the Dark is a novel written by Seamus Deane in 1996. The novel is set in Derry, Northern Ireland and spans more than twenty-five years (February 1945 through July...


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 The Washington Post
Reading in the Dark
07/20/1997: 910 words, approx. 3 pages Books & Co. has closed. It was a celebrated New York bookseller, beloved by many intellectuals and show business personalities -- Woody Allen, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion -- some of whom came into the store in its last days...
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 The Independent - London
Book you can read in the dark
09/17/1998: 448 words, approx. 2 pages FRAN MATTHEWS, a 24-year-old PR executive in London, likes novels. She is reading Colin Bateman's Divorcing Jack. before that she lapped up The Angels of Russia by Patricia Leroy. The difference was that she could read Leroy's book in the dark. Ms Matthews...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Robert Boyers
3,152 words, approx. 11 pages
 In the following review, Boyers traces the development of betrayal as the central theme of Reading in the Dark, explicating narrative implications about the political character of Northern Ireland.
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Critical Review by Thomas Flanagan
3,093 words, approx. 10 pages
 In the following review, Flanagan establishes the literary and cultural contexts of Reading in the Dark, comparing the novel to James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and providing a historical background to Derry and its environs.
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Critical Review by Josephine Humphreys
1,445 words, approx. 5 pages
 In the following review, Humphreys summarizes the theme and plot of Reading in the Dark, praising the characterizations and "animated" descriptions of inanimate objects.


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