Word: assassins
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...that day, the family has hewed marble. When Columbus set sail in a tiny caravel, a Fabbricotti was grunting, hoisting marble blocks. When Washington shivered at Valley Forge, a Fabbricotti sweated under a hot sun, polishing and smoothing white stone. When a World War became the echo for an assassin's shot, Fabbricottis heard not. They were quarrying marble...
...Liam O'Flaherty, like all other Irishmen, was interested. To him the act was not a futile political gesture. Instead, he personalized it. What, he asked, did the assassin think of, before; what did he do, after...
...ASSASSIN-Liam O'Flaherty-Harcourt, Brace...
...person of Michael McDara, he draws the sudden nauseating terrors, the megalomania, the curious mystical exaltations of the assassin. McDara, having conceived the assassination-idea, three years before, arrives in Dublin a few days before the act. He enlists the support of two men and a woman. His continuous struggle against panic, and above all the conflict of conceptions of the act's significance and symbolism make the book...
...Assassin is written in powerful style, replete with staccato photographic impressions...