Walking Along the Border

By Colm Tóibín

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330520970
• ISBN13: 9780330520973
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: n/a
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It's not all bad

Written in Toibin's (that's the way we spell it round my way) characteristically spare prose this account of a walk along the Irish border is by turns depressing, humourous and hopeful. It's written at a time when there seeemed to be no end to the conflict in sight, but it treats people on both sides of the divide with equally non-judgemental respect. It's a work of travel writing as much as political journalism, and he seems to find wildness and exoxiticsm in an area 300 miles away from where he was himself born.