Black Around the Eyes

<p>Diamond Donnie Ross is at the centre of this remarkable story of a coal-mining community in Cape Breton in the 1920s. <strong>Black Around the Eyes</strong> evokes the men and women the joys and grief the stark beauty and harsh struggles of that time and place.</p><p><br></p><p>This moving searing novel at times hilarious and at others heart-rending has been out of print for far too long. Moose House is proud to make it available again in a revised edition which corrects some errors in the original and includes a new foreword by the author.</p><p><br></p><p>Jeremy Akerman's memoir <strong>Outsider</strong> includes a revealing passage about the writing of <strong>Black Around the Eyes</strong>. It is also available from Moose House Publications. </p>