Detailed view for the Book: Flame Is Green, The

Title:

Flame Is Green, The
 

Authors:

Genres:

Fantasy

Series:

Coscuin Chronicles
1

Ratings:

Rate this book Review this book

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1971-00-00 Walker Publishing Co.  

Buy this book from Amazon (US)

Blurb: 
“The Flame Is Green” is about the adventures of a young Irishman named Dana Coscuin, who sets out from Bantry Bay in 1845, just as the potato blight is settling onto Ireland and Europe is preparing for the Revolutions of 1848. He makes the tour of the greater and lesser scenes of unrest and pre-unrest, with special attention to Carlist Spain, Paris, and Krakow. The potato blight and the revolutions are not unrelated. On the prosaic level, the author reminds us that the potato harvests also failed in much of Europe in those years: not so disastrously as in Ireland, perhaps, but enough to help foment unrest. On the level of high symbol, however, we also are reminded that the blight caused a red mist of corruption to settle over the green fields. Coscuin and his friends are in the service of the Green Revolution, which at that point in history is largely coincident with the nationalist uprisings. Their task is to protect it from the Red Revolution, which did not yet have much to do with socialism, and which in any case is a primordial thing of no particular politics.
Top