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Buy this book on-line O'FAOLAIN, NUALA: : MY DREAM OF YOU. [Author SIGNED copy.]US.NEW YORK.RIVERHEAD BOOKS,2001. ISBN 9781573221771
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. [Simultaneous HB+dw/dj published in CANADA and in UK by MICHAEL JOSEPH.Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.Nuala O'Faolain died in May 2008,at the age of 68.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat,handwritten black ink signature with date and without dedication - but an indecipherable place name(?) below title on the title page.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around montage'd colour photographic illustrated dw.dj with white+gilt letters to front - along with an "AUTOGRAPHED COPY" adhesive label,white letters to spine/backstrip, critics' reviews for author's her first memoir 'Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman' to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present,and some minimal,faint superficial scoring - without any penetration - boards beneath unaffected. Top edges clean,fairly bright,fore-edges very light thumbing and a few minor blemishes; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,dark green paper-covered boards with a bright,crisp,blocked gilt motif to centre of front cover only,cream cloth blind spine with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering and repeated motif from front cover,a dark green headband and immaculate plain, chocolate brown endpapers.US,8vo HB +dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn, 1-500pp [paginated] includes prologue?/preamble,22 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title, publisher page with author's prior work title, SIGNED title page,acknowledgement, title separator page and further thanks/ acknowledgements as last page in the book.
The author's debut/first novel - her 2nd book,published between her memoirs 'Are you Somebody?' (1998) and 'Almost There.' (2003).It tells the story of Kathleen de Burca,an Irish travel writer living in London,who returns to Ireland after an absence of 30 years.She returns to investigate a true story about a relationship so passionate that it burned its way across the barriers of class and culture a scandalous affair between the wife of an English landlord and an Irish servant during the devastation of Ireland's potato famine'.While back in Ireland,she meets a lover of her own who presents her with a choice that promises to alter the course of her life.As she moves toward her decision,she calls on the strengths of her identity as a woman,an Irish woman,and a woman who is no longer young.Meanwhile,she brings the story of the long-ago lovers to a denouement as tender as it is tragic.
This novel explores the extremes of passion,the depths of loneliness,and the resilience of the human heart.A story of parallel lives,one hundred and fifty years apart,but both driven by a hunger for passionate love.A novel within a novel,a love story within a love story, and an historical story within a contemporary one.
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