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The Visitor
Maeve Brennan
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Description for The Visitor
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 11. Weight in Grams: 114 106pp
Anastasia returns to her grandmother's house in Dublin after six years away. She has been in Paris comforting her dying mother, who ran away from Anastasia's late father. This is a story of Dublin and the unreachable side of the Irish temperament.
Anastasia returns to her grandmother's house in Dublin after six years away. She has been in Paris comforting her dying mother, who ran away from Anastasia's late father. This is a story of Dublin and the unreachable side of the Irish temperament.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New Island Books
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781905494217
SKU
9781905494217
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99-3
About Maeve Brennan
Maeve Brennan (1917-1993) was an Irish writer and a journalist. In 1934 she moved to the USA, where she worked in The New Yorker writing sketches, short stories, essays, fashion notes. In the 1950s and 1960s she was well-known in the USA, but not in Ireland, though Dublin was a frequent setting of her short stories. Her published works include The Long-Winded Lady: ... Read more
Reviews for The Visitor
An astonishing miniature masterpiece.
Nuala O'Faolain a new-found masterpiece…Only in the work of Emily Dickinson can the same ferocious vision – of love, pain, transgression and death – and economy of expression be found.
The Guardian
This early work by the respected writer never flinches from its exploration of the destructive power of family pride and anger. ... Read more
Nuala O'Faolain a new-found masterpiece…Only in the work of Emily Dickinson can the same ferocious vision – of love, pain, transgression and death – and economy of expression be found.
The Guardian
This early work by the respected writer never flinches from its exploration of the destructive power of family pride and anger. ... Read more