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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Aug 2012
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Ages: 18 - UP Pages: 272
divLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of The Secret Scripture/b/pdivA first-person narrative of Lilly Bere's life, On Canaan's Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish emigre 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.divdivSpanning 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.