The House of Splendid Isolation

by EdnaO'Brien (Author), EdnaC'Brien (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $13.65

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.68

  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.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.77

  Into Josie's bedridden world in a dilapidated country mansion comes McGreevey, bloody crusador for a united Ireland. By the author of The Country Girls , Lantern Slides and Time and Tide which won the 1993 Writers' Guild Prize for fiction.