Not Untrue & Not Unkind

Name: Not Untrue & Not Unkind
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Ed OLoughlin
ISBN: 9781441729408

Author: Ed OLoughlin

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/10/2010

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwrights desk containing a photograph that brings him back to a dusty road in Africa and to a woman he once loved. Not Untrue & Not Unkind is Owens story, a gripping tale of friendship, rivalry, and betrayal among a group of journalists and photographers covering Africas wars. It is an astonishingly powerful and accomplished debut that immediately establishes Ed OLoughlin as a mature master of the novel form.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy

This is a difficult book to rate, so I'm not giving it a number. I just can't bring myself to do it this time. Owen Simmons is selected to take over after the death of his editor, Cartwright. As he begins to go through Cartwright's folders, he discovers a photo of Owen's friends and colleagues taken......more

Goodreads review by Elaine

Every image and every emotion in this book is a cliche -- a cliche about Africa, a cliche about expats in Africa, a cliche about men and women... The framing device set in Ireland never gets off the ground, and is frankly overly melodramatic for what turns out to be very little payoff (if Cartwright......more

Goodreads review by J

This book sat on my shelf for so long the store at which I bought it is no longer in business. And when I picked it out of my unread stack, I wondered what lead me to buy it in the first place. The writing is impressive. The stories of the wars are told with distance and dispassion as a journalist wou......more