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‎O'BRIEN EDNA**:‎

‎WILD DECEMBERS.‎

‎<p>UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptnand no price-clip to dw/dj.Glossy laminatedscenic green photographic upper wrapb/w full length author photographic rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Headfoot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and rubbing.Topfore-edges lightly tanned/aged - as usual/normal - but cleancontents brighttight and clean.Cleanblack paper-covered bds with brightcrispstamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and unmarkedplain green eps.UK8vo HBdw/dj1st edn1-247pp includes half-titletitle pagesand a prologue. In 'Wild Decembers'Edna O'Brien completes her brilliant depiction of contemporary Irelandwhich 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 sounda 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 Brennanwho had ruled the mountainsees in Michael Buglerthe returned exilea threat.For BreegeJoseph'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 charactersthis primal story is set in the same locale as in Edna O'Brien's earlier novels.It is a complex and daring workfixed in time and a placeyet imbued with the permanence of myth. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!</p><br /> LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1999. hardcover‎

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