The House of Splendid Isolation: A Novel - Couverture souple

O'Brien, Edna

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9780452274525: The House of Splendid Isolation: A Novel

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ISBN 10 : 0452274524 ISBN 13 : 9780452274525

Editeur : Plume, 1995

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Masterful novel by the bestselling writer, with a controversial story marrying the worlds of a political terrorist and a loveless widow

Josie, the ailing, elderly inhabitant of an Irish country mansion, dwells in the shadowy world of remembered pain and loneliness. McGreevy, the terrorist, reintroduces the possibility of compassion and tenderness, but there is an inevitably violent conclusion to their understanding as the police net closes.

With extraordinary skill and empathy, Edna O'Brien shows two faces of a divided land: the yearnings of a woman whose youthful joy was broken, and the intransigent idealism of her captor. Brave and moving, THE HOUSE OF SPLENDID ISOLATION is Edna O'Brien at her very best.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Since her debut novel The Country Girls Edna O'Brien has written over twenty works of fiction along with a biography of James Joyce and Lord Byron. She is the recipient of many awards including the Irish Pen Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Art's Gold Medal and the Ulysses Medal. Born and raised in the west of Ireland she has lived in London for many years.

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