Author: O'BRIEN, EDNA
Title: The Light of Evening
Description: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2006, First. (ISBN: 978029785132). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a small repaired closed tear and is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A novel of attachments, especially 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 1920's, 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. NOT EX LIB 2. Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Fiction, Irish Author, Dublin, Rusheen, 1920's Brooklyn 978029785132


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