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House of Splendid Isolation O'Brien, Edna Edition: N/A Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Number of Pages: 240 ISBN10: 0452274524 ISBN13: 9780452274525 Dimensions: 5.25" w x 8.00" l x 0.75" h Weight: 0.44 lbs. Binding: Trade Paper Language: English List Price: 14.00

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In her 14th novel, Edna O'Brien moves beyond her beautifully wrought landscapes of private heartbreak to address directly the violence and political turmoil of her native Ireland. When an escaped IRA operative takes refuge in an abandoned house, the sudden return of its occupant leads to a hostile standoff with unexpected results.ldquo;The remarkable Edna Orsquo;Brien manages to sum up a century o...In her 14th novel, Edna O'Brien moves beyond her beautifully wrought landscapes of private heartbreak to address directly the violence and political turmoil of her native Ireland. When an escaped IRA operative takes refuge in an abandoned house, the sudden return of its occupant leads to a hostile standoff with unexpected results.ldquo;The remarkable Edna Orsquo;Brien manages to sum up a century of Irish sorrow in this taut, lyrical novel#133vivid as a flash of lightning.rdquo; -Library Journal McGreevy is an I.R.A. gunman on the run, with the police on his trail and the media howling for his blood. Josie Orsquo;Meara is a widow living alone in a West County farmhouse, savoring the peace that has come after the travails of a savage marriage and the pain of a forbidden love affair. Her house becomes McGreevyrsquo;s refuge, and she his captive, but what begins as a war of words and a battle of wills between them turns into a relationship that fatefully transforms them both. Never has Edna Orsquo;Brien so superbly fused her sense of the universal hungers of the heart and the frailties of the flesh with the bitter conflicts and divisions of Ireland and the Irish. House of Splendid Isolation takes its place as perhaps her most extraordinary triumph, offering the reader a new dimension of one of the towering talents of our time. (more) (less)

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