Fool's Sanctuary
by Johnston, Jennifer
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140102566
- ISBN 13
- 9780140102567
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About This Item
Harmondsworth: Penguin USA, 1988. Very Good. Termon by the Irish sea is the great house in which Miranda and her detache d father believe they and those they love will always be sheltered. The tim e is post-World War I, and for 18-year-old Miranda the idyll is shattered i rreparably when her lover, Cathal, a working-class university student who i s a member of the IRA, and her brother, Andrew, a cynical British Army offi cer, meet at Termon. The inevitable sacrifice of Cathal to save Andrew from an IRA set-up is foreshadowed in achingly terse dialogue. The violent act that leaves Miranda forever bereft is recalled in the opening scenes, when, on her deathbed, she remembers herself as a woman who has "known the embra ces of no man." In elegant, evanescent prose Johnston (How Many Miles to Ba bylon and Shadows on Our Skin) enters the private agony of those destined t o experience the stark romanticism and tragedy of the Irish.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000002737
- Title
- Fool's Sanctuary
- Author
- Johnston, Jennifer
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140102566
- ISBN 13
- 9780140102567
- Publisher
- Penguin USA
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth
- Date Published
- 1988
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