When a young man arrives from Australia to claim his inheritance, he changes a small Irish town for ever.
Joseph Brennan sees Michael Bugler, the returned exile, as a threat. And for Breege, Joseph's younger sister, Bugler is an irresistible stranger to whose charms 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 ownership. With a rich and comic cast of characters, this primal story is a complex and daring work, fixed in a time and place, yet imbued with the permanence of myth.
Edna O'Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish topics - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.
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Librería: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE- dust-jacket. Shelf rub. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. Nº de ref. del artículo: SKU1017071
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Librería: The Blue Penguin, FRODSHAM, Reino Unido
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Librería: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, Estados Unidos de America
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