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The Silence in the Garden
by William Trevor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- USED Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670824046
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824045
- Seller
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Montclair, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Viking Adult, September 1988. Hardcover. USED Good.
Reviews
On Dec 3 2020, The Old Library Bookshop said:
There must have been a seanachie in William Trevor's background, so skillful is he in telling an enthralling story. Or, more likely, a weaver because Trevor does not just tell a story, he weaves one. In his skillful hands the disparate threads of the narrative are shuttled skillfully in and out until finally they come together to form a complex picture, in this case of a family living just off the coast of south Cork in a disintegrating Big House. The thread that runs all through the story and binds it together is the bridge that is to be built to connect island with mainland. This thread is picked up by Sarah Pollexfen, a poor relation to the Rollestons, who comes to Carriglas to act as governess to the three orphaned children whose grandmother is the doyen of the estate. In a sense, Sarah is the seanachie of this story because it is she whose intermittent diary entries knit together the tragic tale of the three Rolleston children with that of Tom, the fatherless child of their maid Brigid, against the background of the promised bridge.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Montclair Book Center (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 199812
- Title
- The Silence in the Garden
- Author
- William Trevor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- USED Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670824046
- ISBN 13
- 9780670824045
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- September 1988
- Pages
- 208
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Montclair Book Center
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