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The land of spices / Kate O'Brien ; with an introduction by Clare Boylan.
Van Pelt Library PR6029.B65 L3 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Brien, Kate, 1897-1974.
- Series:
- Virago modern classics ; 287.
- Virago modern classics ; 287
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monasticism and religious orders for women--Ireland--Fiction.
- Monasticism and religious orders for women.
- Convents--Ireland--Fiction.
- Convents.
- Nuns--Ireland--Fiction.
- Nuns.
- Ireland--Fiction.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 306 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Virago Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Behind the high, closed walls of a convent in the Irish countryside, the lives of its inhabitants are gently marked by the daily rituals of spiritual life. Watching over Anna, her sensitive and poetic young charge, the Mother Superior revisits her childhood relationship with her father. As Anna develops from a six-year-old to a scholarship candidate, Helen comes to understand her own heart and makes peace with her past.
- Notes:
- "Published by Virago Press 1988" ; ... This edition published by Virago Press in 2000" ; "Reprinted ... 2014."
- "Copyright © Mary O'Neill 1941; Introduction copyright © Clare Boylan 2000; Translation copyright © Barbara Rustin 2006."
- ISBN:
- 9781844083169
- 1844083160
- OCLC:
- 902807979
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