Returning: Tales

ISBN: 0140064184
Author: Edna O'brien
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When bachelors rode on lonely bicycles,and jam was a luxury...In these marvellous stories Edna O'Brien returns us to Ireland in the forties,focusing sharply and sensuously on the loves,fears and ghosts of her rural girlhood - memory charging each detail with regret and desire.

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Down By The RiverDOWN BY THE RIVER begins, deceptively, in an idyllic rural setting somewhere in Ireland. By the end, its consequences have addressed and divided the political and judicial fabric of the nation. A crime of passion results...
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Wild DecembersWhen a young man arrives from Australia to claim his inheritance, he changes a small Irish town for ever. Joseph Brennan sees Michael Bugler, the returned exile, as a threat. And for Breege, Joseph's younger sister, Bugl...
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Mrs. Reinhardt And Other StoriesA collection of stories about physical and emotional comings and goings. and many set in Ireland.
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