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Away by Urquhart, Jane
- Bookseller: Highway Book Shop
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 68999
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0771086504
- ISBN 13: 9780771086502
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
- Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date published: 1997
Description
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. 356 pages; cover scuffed with front cover corners curled; 2 copies available; front cover of 1 copy is wrinkled;. ISBN: 0771086504. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. NOVEL.
trade paperback : Often used to indicate any paperback book that is somewhat larger than a mass-market paperback.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Book summary
This is the saga of an Irish family who face the hardships of famine, emigration, and political turmoil with an enduring spiritualist faith. In 1830's Ireland Mary is a young woman who's life is changed when a fairy sailor dies in her arms. Although she marries and moves her family to Ottawa to escape the famine, the fairy world never loosens its grip. Later in life she is called into the Canadian woods to die, abandoning her husband and two children. Her daughter Eileen carries on Mary's proclivity for impossible, otherworldly love, by falling for a fiery Irish patriot who is then caught up in an assassination plot. The whole tale is framed in the memories and legends as recalled by the 80-year-old Esther, Mary's great granddaughter.
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