Resurrection Man

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 233, [3, blank]. Quarter-bound black cloth over paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine; publisher's logo printed on metallic grey endpapers. Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee, featuring a cover photograph by Joshua Sheldon.

Signed by McNamee to title page.

Author's debut novel. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1995. Winner of the 1990 McCauley Fellowship for Irish Literature. A 1989 finalist, for the Irish Times / Aer Lingus Award for Irish Literature. Loosely based on the real-life "Shankill Butchers", an Ulster loyalist gang in 1970s Belfast who conducted random killings of Catholic civilians. Basis for the 1998 film version directed by Marc Evans, with a screenplay written by Eoin McNamee himself. "One of the most outstanding pieces of Irish fiction to come along in years." –Irish Times