The shadowy figure of the dancer reappears while his son, The Gambler of the title, struggles through to early manhood. The nerve ends of the city and its inhabitants are exposed with breadth and vigour and psychological acuity. At once disquieting and deeply resonant, the desperate plight of these characters creates a vivid sense of time and place, where the tortuous forces of life are brought down to bear on this Dublin family. In The Gambler a powerful creative imagination is at work.
Last Train from Liguria
Last Train from Ligura is a tale of displacement and one woman’s life-long struggle for survival. It is also the tale of her grandaughter Anna and how sixty years later she comes to uncover certain facts about her grandmother’s life.
