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On the other hand, keenans confessional tone and willingness to play the role of voyeur encourages the reader to accept his recollections as perfectly trustworthy. Brian keenans will to survive, unbowed, is a stunning testimony to his courage and the human spirit. An evil cradling by keenan, brian, 1950publication date 1993 topics. Brian keenan cbe born 28 september 1950 in belfast, northern ireland is a northern irish writer whose work includes the book an evil cradling, an account of the four and a half years he spent as a hostage in beirut, lebanon from 11 april 1986 to 24 august 1990. An evil cradling is the story of his four years captivity in beirut and is recognized as a nonfiction classic. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with only each other and a few volumes of an ancient american encyclopaedia to sustain them, they could only wander the wide open spaces of their imagination. Well, recently i read the amazing autobiography of brian keenan, an evil cradling.
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