Deirdre Madden: Authenticity [2003] paperback Condition:New But hours before his release

But hours before his release from prison

before and after they found fame - the ups and downs

It has the power to move hearts and change minds" (Guardian)

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Deirdre Madden: Authenticity [2003] paperback Condition:New But hours before his releaseAfter a brilliant youth, the painter Roderic Kennedy's life has been overtaken by a series of crises alcoholism, the failure of his marriage to an Italian woman, and estrangement from his three daughters following his return to Ireland. When he meets Julia Fitzpatrick, twenty years younger than he and also an artist, it seems as if this period of turbulence and misfortune from which he has been struggling to emerge is at an end. But when Julia then