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He was born in Dublin in 1958.
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As It Is in Heaven
(Set in the west of Ireland and Venice, this book features...)
Set in the west of Ireland and Venice, this book features a shy and unconfident schoolteacher and his lovelorn and depressed father whose only desire is to die and join his wife and daughter in heaven.
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History of the Rain: A Novel
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Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told. So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories--and through generations of family history in County Clare (the Swains have the written stories, from salmon-fishing journals to poems, and the maternal MacCarrolls have the oral) and through her own writing (with its Superabundance of Style). Ruthie turns also to the books her father left behind, his library transposed to her bedroom and stacked on the floor, which she pledges to work her way through while she's still living. In her attic room, with the rain rushing down the windows, Ruthie writes Ireland, with its weather, its rivers, its lilts, and its lows. The stories she uncovers and recounts bring back to life multiple generations buried in this soil--and they might just bring her back into the world again, too.
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Boy In The World
(Book by Williams, Niall)
Book by Williams, Niall
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Four Letters of Love (By: Niall Williams) published: April, 1998
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Four Letters of Love: A Novel
( Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, ...)
Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas's own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it. Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She's a passionate girl, but her brother is the real prodigy, a musician. And yet this family, too, is struck by tragedy: a seizure leaves the boy mute and unable to play. Years later, Isabel will continue to somehow blame herself, casting off her own chances for happiness. And then, the day after Isabel's wedding to man she doesn't love, Nicholas arrives on her western isle, seeking his father's last surviving painting. Suddenly the winds of fortune begin to shift, sweeping both these souls up with them. Nicholas and Isabel, it seems, were always meant to meet. But it will take a series of chance events--and perhaps, a proper miracle--to convince both to follow their hearts to where they're meant to be.
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Four Letters Of Love: Picador Classic by Niall Williams (2015-01-01)
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Only Say the Word
(Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dic...)
Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God; later, he loves Kate -- enough to make her his wife and to shape his life around her -- and later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah. This is Jim's story, from his early days in County Clare to early adulthood in America, and then back to Clare again. From happy-ever-after to death-do-us-part; from beginnings to endings to fresh starts; from child, to husband to father, it is the story of the people and places in Jim's life; the story of his hopes, his fears and fantasies, his ever-evolving relationships and the books that remain always constant, even while his family and future are uncertain. Deeply personal and written in Niall William's lyrical, lilting prose, Only Say the Word is both a love letter and a story about love, in its many forms and guises. About unspoken and unrequited love, about undying devotion, untested or unquestioning faith, about the death of love and loved ones, and the love that outlives them all, about god, home and family, about ties that bind and sometimes divide, about unconditional love and love with strings attached, Williams's fourth novel is ultimately about the redeeming, enduring nature of love -- the belief that, sometimes, when it's all you have, love has to be enough.
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Picador Shots - The Unrequited (Picador Shots)
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Niall Williams
Edit ProfileEducation
He studied English and French literature at University College Dublin before graduating with a Master"s degree in Modern American Literature.
Career
He later worked as a copywriter for Avon Books in New York City before leaving America with Chris in 1985 to attempt to make a life as a writer His first four books were co-written with Christine and tell of their life together in Kiltumper in west Clare. In 1991 Niall"s first play "The Murphy Initiative" was staged at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
His second play, "A Little Like Paradise" was produced on the Peacock stage of The Abbey Theatre in 1995.
His third play, "The Way You Look Tonight," was produced by Galway"s Druid Theatre Company in 1999. Niall"s first novel was Four Letters of Love.
Published in 1997, it went on to become an international bestseller and has been published in over twenty countries. His second novel, As it is in Heaven was published in 1999 and was long listed for the Irish Times IMPAC Literary Award.
His third novel, The Fall of Light was published in Britain and Ireland, France, Italy and America.
His fourth novel, Only Say The Word, was published in 2005 in several countries and his fifth novel, Boy in the World was published in 2007. Boy in the World is dedicated to Joseph, Niall"s son. He wrote chapters and sent them to Joseph who was away at boarding school.
Niall continued the story in the sequel, Boy and Manitoba
Niall"s seventh novel is entitled John. A story about the apostle John who reportedly lived 100 years.
The novel explores John"s life during the many long years while awaiting Jesus"s return. He is at work on several screenplays, including one on his novel Four Letters of Love.
He worked as a mentor for Master of Fine Arts students of Carlow University in Pittsburgh.
He was also the writer-in-residence for Company Sligo, for the previous two years.
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Works
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Only Say the Word
(Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dic...)
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As It Is in Heaven
(Set in the west of Ireland and Venice, this book features...)
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Four Letters of Love: A Novel
( Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, ...)
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History of the Rain: A Novel
( Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize We are our st...)
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Boy In The World
(Book by Williams, Niall)
- Four Letters of Love (By: Niall Williams) published: April, 1998
- Four Letters Of Love: Picador Classic by Niall Williams (2015-01-01)
- Picador Shots - The Unrequited (Picador Shots)
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Only Say the Word
