Introduction Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a “softheaded goose” by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise [...]
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John the Revelator by Peter Murphy
Introduction Stuck in a small town in the otherworldly landscape of southeast Ireland, John Devine lives in a tiny house worried over by his single, chain-smoking, Bible-quoting mother, Lily, and spied on by the “neighborly” Mrs. Nagle. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled Rimbaudian boy wonder, arrives in town, John’s life suddenly seems full of possibility. [...]
The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien
About the Book Selected as a Best Book of the Year: Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Rocky Mountain News, Boston Phoenix “A delicate, everyday, even humorous love between mother and daughter is revealed as the grandest of passions.” —Nuala O’Faolain As she has in much of her stunning fiction, Edna [...]
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
• A New York Times Notable Book and a Book Sense 76 selection “This literary thriller reads like a dark enchantment, an unholy myth, a terrifyingly true fairy tale.” — Elle In the Forest returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of Edna O’Brien’s best-selling Wild Decembers. Here O’Brien unravels a [...]
