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The Village of Longing
George O´brien
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Description for The Village of Longing
Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the somnolent river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in hardback in 1987. It describes the life and surroundings of an only child raised in an unorthodox household within a close-knit society ruled by the twin empires of Castle and Church haunted by the lure of foreignness and the pain of exile. George O’Brien’s shimmering prose incarnates an Ireland in microcosm – a physical place and a place of the mind.
The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the somnolent river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in hardback in 1987. It describes the life and surroundings of an only child raised in an unorthodox household within a close-knit society ruled by the twin empires of Castle and Church haunted by the lure of foreignness and the pain of exile. George O’Brien’s shimmering prose incarnates an Ireland in microcosm – a physical place and a place of the mind.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
151
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781901866780
SKU
KMK0012915
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Ref
99-1
About George O´brien
GEORGE O'BRIEN is Professor of English at Georgetown University, and the author of two subsequent memoirs, Dancehall Days and Out of Our Minds.
Reviews for The Village of Longing
‘Page after page, he splits the atom of detail so that autobiography and cultural history flare up in one long pleasurable chain-reaction.’-Seamus Heaney, Observer