The Heather Blazing
First paperback edition cover | |
| Author | Colm Tóibín. |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Picador |
Publication date | 11 September 1992 |
| Publication place | Ireland |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 224 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-330-32124-2 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 26978348 |
| 823/.914 20 | |
| LC Class | PR6070.O455 H4 1992 |
The Heather Blazing is the 1992 novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It was the writer's second novel and allowed him to become a full-time fiction writer. The intensity of the prose and the emotional tension under the colder eye with which the events are seen, provided him with a faithful readership both at home and abroad. It won the 1993 Encore Award for a second novel. The novel takes its title from a line from the song "Boolavogue", specifically "a rebel hand set the heather blazing".