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The Light of Evening
Edna O'brien
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Description for The Light of Evening
paperback. Signed by the author. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
With THE LIGHT OF EVENING Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her first novel, rural Ireland and the relationship between mother and daughter. Whereas her first novel THE COUNTRY GIRLS was, as she once said, ' a simple little tale of two girls who were trying to burst out of their gym frocks and their convent, and their own lives in their own houses, to make it to the big city', in THE LIGHT OF THE EVENING the mother is dying, her daughter, a writer, is in the aftermath of a rotten marriage. The novel reflects their ... Read more
With THE LIGHT OF EVENING Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her first novel, rural Ireland and the relationship between mother and daughter. Whereas her first novel THE COUNTRY GIRLS was, as she once said, ' a simple little tale of two girls who were trying to burst out of their gym frocks and their convent, and their own lives in their own houses, to make it to the big city', in THE LIGHT OF THE EVENING the mother is dying, her daughter, a writer, is in the aftermath of a rotten marriage. The novel reflects their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Condition
Used, Very Good
Signed by the author
Yes
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780297851356
SKU
KMK0023406
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Edna O'brien
Edna O'Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers' Guild Prize for Fiction. Her recent fiction has been about Irish to;pic - religion, politics, property. Her 2001 novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of ... Read more
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