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Parker, Tony May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast
New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Co 1994 0805030530 / 9780805030532 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
A photo of this book is available. Very-nice, clean copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. 358 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis: For twenty years the situation in Northern Ireland has been incompletely and often inaccurately reported by the press. Few people understand that in one part of the United Kingdom there exists a society where what matters most is religious origin and affiliation; still fewer empathize with the deep-rooted passions aroused by this. Tony Parker spent five months in the heart of Belfast talking to the people who make up this riven and self-destructive society. He interviewed priests and politicians, schoolchildren and students, bus drivers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, shop assistants, community workers, single mothers, soldiers, and police. He earned the trust of prisoners, their parents and children, and, perhaps most remarkably of all, Catholic and Protestant extremists implacably committed to violence as their means of expression. As Mary Loudon wrote in the Sunday Telegraph, "Tony Parker is an interviewer with an extraordinary capacity to filter what people say to him without turning their words his color." Through him the voices of the people of Belfast are heard for the first time, and the effect is devastating. Publishers Weekly: Parker ( Russian Voices ) has compiled an involving collection of some 60 vignettes profiling both Catholics and Protestants on the struggle in Belfast. Upon his arrival, the British writer had to learn the subtleties that mark and separate the two religious groups. Belfast people will never ask outright which you are, but they will look for clues. Parker interviews Vicky Murray, who doesn't follow any religion but is ``afraid because I don't know what's going on.'' There's Catholic Rose Murphy, whose 17-year-old son under threat from the Protestant militia fled to London. Pat Taylor is the product of a ``mixed'' marriage and still thinks every day of his younger brother who was killed in sectarian fighting. Sammy Wilson is a Belfast City Councillor and Democratic Unionist who proudly recalls the siege of Londonderry in 1690 and calls Catholics ``fascists.'' Eamon Collins is a Republican terrorist who spent time ``on the blanket'' in Long Kesh prison and considers himself ``100% anti-British.'' Parker's interviewing technique, which is reminiscent of Studs Terkel's Working , supplies the reader with a valuable guide to one of the most tortured cities in the world.
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Parker, Tony Studs Terkel: A Life in Words
New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Company 1996 0805034838 / 9780805034837 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Stated First Edition. Price inside dustcover: $27.50. Tight spine, bright pages. 238 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Dustcover shows slight wear (NO tears). Studs Terkel: A Life in Words is the story of a broadcasting and writing phenomenon and represents the remarkable result of a sequence of meetings between the two supreme masters of the tape-recorded interview, America's Studs Terkel and Britain's Tony Parker. For forty years, Studs Terkel's daily radio talk show, based in Chicago, has won him national recognition. His best-selling books, including Hard Times, Working, and his Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Good War," are classics of oral history and have brought him international fame. In this meeting of the maestros, Tony Parker recounts Terkel's life story using Terkel's own method, that of the tape-recorded interview. Through a kaleidoscope of voices - from John Kenneth Galbraith, Mike Royko, and Calvin Trillin to Terkel's office assistant, his family, friends, and the people with whom he's worked - the master interviewer gradually emerges. But the soul of the book is found in Parker's extended interviews with Terkel himself. This is the first biography with which Terkel has cooperated, and in a series of fascinating conversations we come to know not only the highlights of his life but also the personality of the man who can discover the essence of people's lives in their answers to his questions.
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Parker, Tony The Violence of Our Lives: Interviews With American Murderers
New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Co 1995 0805030581 / 9780805030587 Hard Cover Near-Fine Very Good
Very-nice, clean copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $22.50. Tight spine, bright pages. 235 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - Synopsis Through interviews with men and women convicted of killing by near-accident, during acts of passion, or in contract hits, Parker reveals their stories, their motives, their thoughts: none claims innocence; some show remorse. Parker collects their conversations and, by subtle arrangement, achieves an extraordinary narrative tension. Among those who talked with him were a man who spent three years on Death Row awaiting execution and another who was strapped in the electric chair before being reprieved; a pastor of a revivalist church in the Deep South who became a born-again fundamentalist in prison; a former prostitute who murdered her pimp and set fire to his body; a lawyer and former addict who shot her live-in drug dealer boyfriend; a personnel manager now out of prison on parole after serving seventeen years for a street-brawl stabbing; and many others - men and women, black and white, some of whom are regarded as so dangerous and violent that they are incarcerated in maximum-security prisons with no chance of ever being released. Finally, there are interviews with relatives of people who were murdered - scarred forever, like the offenders, by the violence of our lives. From each interview there emerges a story so individual, vivid, and skillfully rendered that it challenges any assumptions about the causes of crime and the justification of punishment. Annotation One of the world's most accomplished interviewers sets his sights on American murderers. Through interviews with men and women convicted of everything from acts of passion to contract hits, Parker reveals their thoughts, their stories, their motives. He collects their conversations and, by subtle arrangement, achieves an extraordinary narrative tension.
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