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Description for In the Forest
Paperback. Good copy, some light shelf wear, name on endpaper
"In The Forest", set in the west of Ireland and based on a horrendous true crime, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people in a forest glade. The young man, Mich O'Kane, is 'not all there in the head' as one character puts it; he hears voices, he cannot stop mourning the death of his mother. By puberty he is already committing petty crimes, ending up in a Christian Brothers borstal. By the time he is back home he has also served time in a British jail and is an institutionalised criminal. Incapable of telling ... Read more
"In The Forest", set in the west of Ireland and based on a horrendous true crime, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people in a forest glade. The young man, Mich O'Kane, is 'not all there in the head' as one character puts it; he hears voices, he cannot stop mourning the death of his mother. By puberty he is already committing petty crimes, ending up in a Christian Brothers borstal. By the time he is back home he has also served time in a British jail and is an institutionalised criminal. Incapable of telling ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780297607380
SKU
KTK0090807
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Edna O´brien
Edna O'Brien, one of Ireland's greatest contemporary novelists, made her name with THE COUNTRY GIRLS in 1960. She has also written plays and contributes regularly to the NEW YORKER.
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