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Jennifer Johnston - Grace and Truth - 9780747267515 - KEX0303075
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Grace and Truth

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Description for Grace and Truth Hardback. Very good copiy in dustwrapper.. First edition.Signed by the author
Sally, an actress, has just returned from a long European tour to her house in Goatstown, and looks forward eagerly to seeing her husband, Charlie, again. When Charlie announces that he's leaving her, Sally, devastated and furious, makes him pack his bags at once. But maybe, she wonders later, she really is too hard to live with? Weighed down by the unspoken secrets of two generations, and hoping for some glimmer of comfort, Sally turns to her grandfather, the frosty old Bishop she has never really known.

Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747267515
SKU
KEX0303075
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jennifer Johnston
Jennifer Johnston is one of the foremost Irish writers of her, or any generation. She has won the Whitbread Prize (The Old Jest), the Evening Standard Best First Novel Award (for The Captains And The Kings), the Yorkshire Post Award, Best Book of the Year (twice, for The Captains And The Kings and How Many Miles To Babylon?). She has ... Read more

Reviews for Grace and Truth
'Johnston has written a powerful book. She sensitively examines those themes - of paternity, of reality - that have always been the domain of literature... [Her] literary references never complicate her writing, but illuminate it, creating a rich and perceptive blend of poetry and experience' TLS 04/05/2005 - Times Literary Supplement ,A deceptively simple piece. It is only when ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Grace and Truth


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