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Away by Urquhart, Jane
- Bookseller: Old Goat Books
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 1030839
- Format: Softcover
- Book condition: NF. Remainder mark.
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0771086504
- ISBN 13: 9780771086502
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
- Place: Toronto
- Date published: 1997
- Pages: 356 pages.
Description
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. Softcover. NF. Remainder mark.. no. Evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada in the early 19th century. Trade Paperback
NF : Near fine condition
trade paperback : Often used to indicate any paperback book that is somewhat larger than a mass-market paperback.
remainder mark : Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on the edges of the text block in the form of a marker stripe or a stamp of some sort.
Remainder marks considerably lower the overall collectibility of a title, although, in some cases, they are acceptable to a collector.
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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