An autobiographical tapestry; recollections of an Irish childhood linked to an account of a journey there today, interwoven with fragments of Irish mythology, history and hearsay. All the essential poetry, beauty, strangeness, simplicities, superstitions and fears of rural Ireland are evoked by Edna O'Brien's lyrical and personal style and by Fergus Bourke's magnificent photographs. 19.5mm x 12.5mm x .5mm.

Mother Ireland

History

OBRIEN, EDNA

Europe

Penguin Uk

Edna O'Brien is the author of 22 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish topics - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A story of a woman who murders her lover, her son's best friend. It uncovers a world where love and hope walk hand in hand with barely concealed violence and despair, where a woman is driven, despite herself, to exact revenge for suffering. The author also wrote "The Lonely Girl".

Johnny I Hardly Knew You

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Putnam~trade

A selection of 29 stories by the author of "Look At Me", "Girls in Their Married Bliss" and "Lantern Slides".

Fanatic Heart Selected Stories of Edna

This is the story of a woman's life, her marriage and the bonds that tie her to her two boys. When the marriage ends she battles to keep her children, while trying to sustain an emotional life of her own and to earn a living. Her boys grow older, but they are still the centre of her life.

Time And Tide

Country Girls Trilogy

World Literature

RH Canada UK Dist

In the Forest

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

The Little Red Chairs

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in a fatal attraction that leads to unimaginable consequences.

THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS

Literary

FABER ET FABER

Plötzlich im schönsten Frieden. Roman.

Diogenes-Verlag

Zeit und Gezeiten.

dtv.

Am Fluß.

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