Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - From the author of Empire of Pain--a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.

One of The New York Times's 20 Best Books of the 21st Century

Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book--as finely paced as a novel--Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga. --New York Times Book Review

Reads like a novel ... Keefe is ... a master of narrative nonfiction. . .An incredible story.--Rolling Stone

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, and more

Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.

Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders.

From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.

PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Snakehead and Chatter. He is also an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at the New America Foundation. His work has also featured in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Slate, New York, and The New York Review of Books, and he is a regular guest on NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC. Patrick won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014 for his story A Loaded Gun, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and is a Guggenheim Fellow.

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ISBN 13	9780307279286
ISBN 10	0307279286
Title	Say Nothing
Author	Patrick Radden Keefe
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-02-25
Number of pages	560
Prizes	Commended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2019
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