The High Road
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Love and tragedy converge in a seaside town in The High Road, a newly reissued novel from Edna O'Brien, the author of Girl and "one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's Weekend Edition)
This richly peopled, compellingly readable novel explores the many lives of women--as mystic, mother, daughter, and lover. There is Iris, with her "winsome wonsome" ways, no longer young; there is Charlotte, a troubled debutante who has fled from society; and there is the narrator, Anna, who feels that her emotional life has folded until she meets a young Spanish girl named Catalina. Set in a seaside enclave on the Mediterranean coast, The High Road is a passionate account of lost love and the return to loving, where currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fiery instinct for survival.Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0374538808
ISBN13:9780374538804
Release Date:March 2022
Publisher:Picador USA
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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Gorgeous prose, lesbian theme
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
While this book is a very good piece of literature, its story line is often stark and painful--love complicated by misunderstandings, deaths, subterfuge. Not recommended for the faint-hearted. But a great read.
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