Buy this book on-line O'BRIEN**, EDNA: : WILD DECEMBERSLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1999. ISBN 0297645765.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Glossy, laminated,scenic green photographic upper
wrap, b/w full length author photographic rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and rubbing.Top+fore-edges lightly toned/aged - as usual/normal - but clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Clean, black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and unmarked,plain green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1-247pp includes half-title+title pages, and a Prologue.
In Wild Decembers,Edna O'Brien completes her brilliant depiction of contemporary Ireland, which began with 'House of Splendid Isolation' (see rja1260) and continued with 'Down by the River.'
'Heraldic and unflagging it chugged up the mountain road, the sound,' a new sound jarring in on that profoundly pensive landscape.' The arrival of a tractor,and its enigmatic owner precipitate a chain of events in an isolated Irish community.
Joseph Brennan,who had ruled the mountain,sees in Michael Bugler,the returned exile,a threat. For Breege,Joseph's younger sister,Bugler is an irresistible stranger to whose magnetism she must not succumb for fear of betraying her brother.A love-hate story on many levels,'Wild Decembers' explores the depth and darkness at the root of all possession.With a rich and comic cast of characters,this primal story is set in the same locale as in Edna O'Brien's earlier novels.It is a complex and daring work,fixed in time and a place,yet imbued with the permanence of myth.
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