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The Light of Evening

A Novel

Edna O'Brien

Picador

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ISBN10: 0374538786
ISBN13: 9780374538781

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304 Pages

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The Light of Evening is a newly reissued edition of the novel by award-winning author Edna O'Brien. It is a novel of dreams and attachments, lamentations and betrayals. At its core, it is the realization that the bond between mother and child is unbreakable, stronger even than death.

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"The award-winning O'Brien evokes the cruelty of estrangement while allowing her characters to remain sympathetic and giving them real voice."—Publishers Weekly

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Dilly


“WILL YOU PIPE DOWN outta that,” Dilly says. “I said will you pipe down outta that Dilly says.”

Demon of a crow out there before daylight, cawing and croaking, rummaging in the palm tree that...

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About the author

Edna O'Brien

Edna O’Brien has written more than twenty-five works of fiction, including The Little Red Chairs and The Light of Evening. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Arts Club Medal of Honor, and the Ulysses Medal. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years.

Edna O'Brien

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