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Returning: A Collection Of Tales

Returning: A Collection Of Tales

by EdnaO'Brien (Author)

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    Hardcover 1998

    $3.23

  • Used

    Paperback 1983

    $3.23

  • Used

    Hardcover 1982

    $3.23
Synopsis

A first rate collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed author of House of Splendid isolation and Down by the RiverWhen all the convent girls were in love with Clark Gable...When bachelors rose on lonely bicycles, and jam was a luxury...In this excellent collection of short stories, Edna O'Brien powerfully evokes the sensations of childhood and adolescence in Ireland - the smells and tastes , the fears and joys, the sadness and the confusions.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 160
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Nov 1998
ISBN 10: 0753805340
ISBN 13: 9780753805343
Book Overview: *Edna O Brien is an award winning novelist who remains at the forefront of contemporary British literature. Both Down by the River and House of Splendid Isolation are Phoenix paperback bestsellers, with almost 100,000 copies sold to date.

Author Bio
Edna O'Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish topics - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.