AsItIsinHeaven(1stEdition) by NiallWilliams, David Feintuch Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1999 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-446-52548-0, ISBN: 0-446-52548-0
"Time has already stopped for Stephen Griffin when he moves into the little house by the sea. Twenty-eight years old and haunted by death, the tall, awkward, shy schoolteacher is Content to care for his father in Dublin and let life pass him by.Then a miracle appears: a string ensemble from Venice and, with it, a violinist named Gabriella Castoldi. Even though the worldly, beautiful musician seems incapable of giving her heart, love seiz ..."
"This story takes up where O Come Ye Back to Ireland left off. After learning they can't have children, Niall and Christine adopt their only child, Diedre, and continue their story in the pastoral farming community in the wild and beautiful Irish countryside."
History of the Rain(1stEdition) A Novel by NiallWilliams Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-62040-647-2, ISBN: 1-62040-647-0
"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 ..."
John(1stEdition) A Novel by NiallWilliams Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-59691-467-4, ISBN: 1-59691-467-X
"In the tradition of Jim Crace’s Quarantine and Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, John is a stunning, lyrical reimagining of John the Apostle in the final years of his life, by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Four Letters of Love. At a time when Americans remain skeptical about religion but still thirst for spiritual fulfillment, Niall Williams’s extraordinary and masterful new novel reveals a universally appealing message ..."
Only Say the Word(1stEdition) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 345 Pages, Published 2006 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43396-9, ISBN: 0-330-43396-2
"Both a novel and a letter from a husband to his wife, Only Say the Word is a haunting, intimate testament to the enduring nature of love.Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God, although not necessarily in that order. Later, he loves Kate, enough to make her his wife; later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah. This is Jim's story, from early days spent in County Clare to early adulthood in America ..."
"Beginning in Ireland in the early years of the 19th century, the four Foley brothers flee across the country with their father and the large telescope he has stolen. Soon forced apart by the violence of the Irish wilderness, the potato famine, and the promise of America, the brothers find themselves scattered across the world. Their separate adventures unfold in passionate and vivid scenes with gypsies, horse races, sea voyages, and bea ..."
"In 1975 Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakland: one square mile of rich, black soil carved out of a Chicago ghetto, cradling sparkling apartment towers and emerald lawns, where the elite black professionals live in privilege, secure behind a ten-foot-tall, ivy-covered, wrought-iron fence. This generation of blacks, only once removed from salt pork, fatback, and biscuits, now dines on caviar and ..."
AsItIsInHeaven(Updated) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Pan Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37531-3, ISBN: 0-330-37531-8
AsItIsinHeaven(Reprint) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2000 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67601-4, ISBN: 0-446-67601-2
AsItIsinHeaven by NiallWilliams Paperback, Published 2000 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-39174-0, ISBN: 0-330-39174-7