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Away by Urquhart, Jane
- Bookseller: A Good Read
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 12318
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0771086598
- ISBN 13: 9780771086595
- Publisher: M & S
- Place: Toronto
- Date published: 1993
- Size: 6.25 x 9 x 1 inches
- Weight: 1 pounds
Description
Toronto: M & S, 1993 Previously read copy - creased at spine. Some wear to upper tips of wrapper. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
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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