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Academy Street by Mary Costello (Paperback / softback, 2016)

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With extraordinary devotion, Mary Costello brings to life a woman who would otherwise have faded into oblivion. J. M. Coetzee WINNER OF THE BORD GAIS IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A FINALIST FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, AND THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURETess Lohan is the kind of woman we meet and fail to tice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who netheless feels things acutely a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello s lumius portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The vel has a hyptic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force: It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy, capturing, in sentence after sentence, the rhythm and intensity of inner life.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Picador USA
ISBN-10
125008167x
ISBN-13
9781250081674
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221496923

Product Key Features

Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Author
Mary Costello

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication
05/04/2016
Country of Publication
United States
Author Biography
Mary Costello grew up in Galway and now lives in Dublin. Her 2012 short-story collection, The China Factory, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and short-listed for an Irish Book Award. Her stories have been published in various anthologies and broadcast on radio.

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