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An Irish Eye Hawkes, John Good

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Item specifics

Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
ISBN
9780670875917

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670875910
ISBN-13
9780670875917
eBay Product ID (ePID)
963562

Product Key Features

Book Title
Irish Eye
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Author
John Hawkes
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
7.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-000236
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
An
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements List of Plates Introduction Part One - Unwritten History Part Two - History Rewritten Part Three - Beyond History Epilogue Notes Index
Synopsis
The narrator of this wild, highly inventive tale is the orphan Dervla O'Shannon, dubbed "Thistle" because she is "skinny and prickly and unwanted". Reared at Saint Martha's Home for Foundling Girls until the age of puberty, her world is circumscribed by scrubbing floors, washing up the kitchen, and competing with thirty others for the attention of the Foundling Mother. Forced to pay entertainment calls on some of Ireland's national heroes sequestered at Saint Clement's home for Old Soldiers, Dervla is assigned to Corporal Stack, a wry malcontent, veteran of the First World War and old enough to be Dervla's grandfather. There follows an improbable and uproarious courtship between the two, their escape from their respective institutions, Dervla's endless stream of letters to the Foundling Mother, "true in sentiment but in every other way as false as a cat". Corporal Stack suffers a shocking injury, and the pair are taken in captivity to Great Manor, an Anglo-Irish estate inhabited only by a "young mistress" (a girl very like Dervla herself), her drunken brother, and a host of desolate babies. In a wonderfully unpredictable ending, the ever optimistic Dervla at last discovers the love and satisfaction she has been seeking throughout her adventures.
LC Classification Number
PS3558.A82I75 1997

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