The Essential Jennifer Johnston: The Captains and the Kings, The Railway Station Man, Fool's Sanctuary - Softcover

Jennifer Johnston is widely recognized as one of Irelandıs finest writers. She is a winner of the Whitbread Award and the Evening Standard First Novel Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This volume now collects three of her best-loved novels: The Captains and the Kings, The Railway Station Man, and Foolıs Sanctuary. Introducing this edition, Sebastian Barry observes: ³Often old age or aging is her theme, or its corollary, vulnerable youth. We watch her people rise and fall, and fall, like we might watch comets ‹ not conscious always of their inexorable decay and yet affected by it and dazzled by the grandeur of the tail of light behind. The music of that fall, that decay and interior grandeur, that magnificent isolation and essential human loneliness...is known to her and serves all her purposes.² Among Jennifer Johnstonıs books are Shadows on Our Skin, which was shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize; The Old Jest, winner of the 1979 Whitbread Award; and most recently, Two Moons.

Jennifer Johnston is one of the foremost Irish writers of her, or any generation. She has won the Whitbread Prize, the Evening Standard Best First Novel Award, the Yorkshire Post Award, Best Book of the Year (twice), and has been shortlisted for the Booker.