On Canaan's side a novel
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of The Secret ScriptureA first-person narrative of Lilly Bere's life, On Canaan's Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a...
| Main Author: | Barry, Sebastian, 1955- |
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| Format: | Downloads eBook Books eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2011.
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| Summary: |
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of The Secret ScriptureA first-person narrative of Lilly Bere's life, On Canaan's Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in America, where -- far from her family -- she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal. Spanning nearly seven decades, Sebastian Barry's extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, war, family ties, love, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource |
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Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 210 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
| ISBN: |
9781101544259 |
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