THE LIGHT OF EVENING.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£14.99) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour illustrated dw/dj panels,with white and fluorescent blue gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A blue+white circular adhesive (removable) 'As read on BBC Radio 4' sticker/label towards bottom corner of front panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent blue gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain pale blue endpaqpers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-272pp [paginated] includes a prologue,Pts 1-8 and an epilogue,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,an epigram, dedication,Pts separator pages and 8pp blanks at the rear. Edna O'Brien's commanding new novel is a story of attachments; especially the attachment between a mother and daughter,who yearn for closeness but are also estranged.From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter,Eleanora,from London. The epochs of her life pass before her; emigrating to America in the 1920s,a romantic liaison she had there,the destiny that brought her back to Ireland,and her marriage into the stately Rusheen.She also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner,which alienated mother and daughter even more,and Dilly's heart-rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her daughter.Eleanora's visit does not prove to be the glad reunion that it might have been and,in her sudden departure,she leaves behind the secret journal of their stormy relationship,a revelation which brings the novel to a shocking close. Ireland is always the inner and outer landscape for Edna O'Brien's fiction but,with 'The Light of Evening',we also have a cinematic portrait of Brooklyn in the 1920s,seen through the eyes of a young emigrant.It is a novel of dreams and broken dreams but,at its core,is the realisation that the bond between mother and child is unbreakable, stronger than even death.A powerful,ambitious and disturbing novel,it is sure to bring this daring author her widest audience yet. Want more Edna O'BRIEN titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2 and SIGNED catalogues. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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