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Saints and Sinners

Saints and Sinners

Name: Saints and Sinners
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571270316

Edna O'Brien

17/02/2011
Faber & Faber

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Saints and Sinners par Edna O'Brien

Résumé

A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed; an Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold, an outside both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land. A collection characterised by all of Edna O'Brien's trademark lyricism, powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions.