![]() This is partly due to the way in which The Last Storyteller incorporates the rich backdrop of Ireland in the 1950s at the official start of “the troubles”. The novel is the last in a trilogy that follows The Matchmaker of Kenmare and Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show, and although there are hints of a prior story in The Last Storyteller–Ben’s father’s relationship with Venetia, and Venetia’s abduction are all key to the plot of The Last Storyteller- enough backstory is revealed for this novel to work as a standalone read. ![]() Hardcover: 400 pages, February 7, 2012, ISBN-13: 978-1400067855Īt a fairly late point in The Last Storyteller, the protagonist Ben McCarthy says that, in times of acute pain and fear, people needed “something other than their norms.” By this, he was referring to the power of stories to heal and unite people: “At one stride we had returned to a kind of spiritual paganism, an intense humanism almost, a reaching for primitive beliefs in the power of the human spirit to learn how to heal itself.” (337) This is, at heart, what The Last Storyteller is about: the power of stories to unite and heal. ![]()
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