Buy this book on-line O'BRIEN**, EDNA: : DOWN BY THE RIVERLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 1996. ISBN 0297818066.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - so, believed to be an export copy - as these precede the domestic trade edn. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,a b/w lettered critic's review to rear panel,with gilt,brown and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean - though lightly and minimally marked to top edge - fore-edges very lightly toned but clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 265pp [paginated]; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,and epigrams (2).
'The road silent,somnolent yet with a speech of its own,speaking back to them,father and child, through trappings of sun and fretted verdure, speaking of the old mutinies and a fresh crime mounting in the blood.'
So begins Edna O'Brien's new novel (then 1996) 'Down By The River'.The consequences of that crime are far reaching.For the girl,her family and the conflicting mores of the land.
Set in her native Ireland,Edna O'Brien's novel explores the dark and umbilical aspects of family ties.
As Mary,the young heroine,tries to conceal,then escape her fate,she finds herself driven into the emotional styx.As her private - and redeemable - tragedy is dragged into the public realm,her power of decision is usurped by militant factions on all sides.
In 'Down By The River',Edna O'Brien is at the peak of her narrative powers.Her gift for describing extremes of emotional conflict is at its most searing and poetic.Her prose churns the heart with its potent rhythms as she demonstrates how one person's history can be subsumed by church and state.
Here at once is a story relevant to our times, but encompassing age-old and primal themes.
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