The rest of the novel is an existential post-mortem conducted in shifting viewpoints. Nina Hardy, a celebrated Irish actress, is killed by her gardener and childhood friend, George. ''Shade" isn't a novel for those who like happy endings, or happy beginnings, for that matter: The main character is murdered on the first page. ''Shade," his fourth novel, covers territory familiar to viewers of Jordan's films: a dark world fraught with moral ambiguities, explored in a prose every bit as beautiful and compelling as his scriptwriting and cinematography.
Shade, By Neil Jordan, Bloomsbury, 275 pp., paperback, $14.95Īmericans know Neil Jordan primarily as the director of the 1992 sleeper hit ''The Crying Game." But he's also one of Ireland's most accomplished novelists.
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