In the Forest
A Novel
ISBN10: 0374538778
ISBN13: 9780374538774
Trade Paperback
272 Pages
$17.00
CA$23.00
In the Forest is a newly reissued edition of the terrifying novel from "one of the greatest writers in the English-speaking world" (The New York Times).
Edna O'Brien follows Michen O'Kane, who was born with a killer instinct, as he unleashes his murderous rage along the countryside of western Ireland, drawing innocent victims into the forest of his twisted fantasies.
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"Based on a real triple homicide that shocked Ireland in 1994, O'Brien's short, stark and eloquent novel reveals an unforgettable prospect of hell . . . O'Brien's sentient, sonorous prose makes both O'Kane's inner world and his environment nearly palpable."—Publishers Weekly
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Cloosh Wood
WOODLAND STRADDLING two counties and several townlands, a drowsy corpus of green, broken only where the odd pine has struck up on its own, spindly, freakish, the stray twigs on either side branched, cruciform-wise....