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House of splendid isolation / Edna O'Brien.
Van Pelt Library PR6065.B7 H55 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Brien, Edna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Ireland--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Terrorists--Ireland--Fiction.
- Terrorists.
- Widows--Ireland--Fiction.
- Widows.
- Ireland.
- Country homes--Fiction.
- Country homes.
- Older women--Fiction.
- Older women.
- Terrorists--Fiction.
- Widows--Fiction.
- Ireland--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994.
- Summary:
- An IRA terrorist, McGreevy, invades Josie's remote old house outside an Irish village, and their coexistence begins as a hostile standoff and evolves into something far more ambiguous.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Cited in:
- Fiction core collection. 16th ed., p. 665
- ISBN:
- 0374173095
- OCLC:
- 29390232
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