Island
Contributors: John McGahern (Foreword)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: June 2001
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780224061940
First sentence: There are times even now, when I awake at four o'clock in the morning with the terrible fear that I have overslept; when I imagine that my father is waiting for me in the room below the darkened stairs or that the shorebound men are tossing pebbles against my window while blowing their hands and stomping their feet impatiently on the frozen steadfast earth.