Wild Decembers
by O'Brien, Edna
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297645765
- ISBN 13
- 9780297645764
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Synopsis
Edna O'Brien's masterly new novel, WILD DECEMBERS, charts the quick and critical demise of relations between Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler - "the warring sons of warring sons" - in the countryside of Western Ireland. With her inimitable gift for describing the occasions of heartbreak, O'Brien brings Joseph's live for his land to the level of his sister Breege's love for both him and his rival, Bugler. Breege sees "the wrong of years and the recent wrongs" fuel each other as Bugler comes to claim recently inherited acreage on what her brother calls " my mountain." A classic drama ensues, involving the full range of bonds and betrayals and leavened by the human comedy of which Edna O'Brien rarely loses sight. A dinner dance in the village of Cloontha and the seduction of Mick Bugler by an eager pair of uninhibited sisters rival Joyce in their hectic exuberance. But as the narrative unfolds, the reader is drawn into the sense of foreboding in a place where "fields mean more than fields, more than life and more than death too."
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- Bookseller
- Cartway Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3448
- Title
- Wild Decembers
- Author
- O'Brien, Edna
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297645765
- ISBN 13
- 9780297645764
- Publisher
- George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- FICTION GENERAL
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- Novel;
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