Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 5/1/2002 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Good. 1.1000 in x 9.1000 in x 6.0000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Synopsis

The author of the New York Times Notable Book The Dower House , known for her elegant prose and her keen eye for the nuances of class, now adds the lush, large-screen immediacy of a Merchant-Ivory film to her compelling tale of a woman and a culture forever changed by World War II. Only a few days after Daisy Creed precipitously marries Patrick Nugent, scion of an Anglo-Irish family, Patrick rejoins his regiment in France. Having never met her in-laws, Daisy sets sail for her new home, Dunmaine, County Waterford. The family's affairs echo its estate: grand and forbidding on the outside, decaying and corrupt within. Patrick's vain, spoiled sister, Corisande, soon flees to her lover, leaving Daisy alone with Patrick's feeble brother, Mickey, and grandmother, Maud, who has taken to her bed. In her determination to save Dunmaine and secure her place as its mistress, Daisy unwittingly becomes an accomplice in a dangerous political plot, as old and as fraught as The Troubles. With grace and wit, Davis-Goff portrays a lost way of life and the war that rendered it obsolete. In the character of Daisy Creed she has created an unforgettable Everywoman of her time--part Elizabeth Bennett, part Scarlett O'Hara.

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Bookseller: Once Upon a Time Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: mon0001053570
Title: This Cold Country
Author: Davis-Goff, Annabel
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0151008477
ISBN 13: 9780151008476
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 5/1/2002 12:00:01 AM
Size: 1.1000 in x 9.1000 in x 6.0000 i
Bookseller catalogs: Book;
X weight: 1.3000 lb

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