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Irish Eye by John Hawkes (1997, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100670875910

ISBN-139780670875917

eBay Product ID (ePID)963562

Product Key Features

Book TitleIrish Eye

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicGeneral, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Hawkes

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.2 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width7.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-000236

TitleLeadingAn

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements List of Plates Introduction Part One - Unwritten History Part Two - History Rewritten Part Three - Beyond History Epilogue Notes Index

SynopsisThe narrator of this wild, highly inventive tale is the orphan Dervla O'Shannon, dubbed "Thistle" because she is "skinny and prickly and unwanted". Reared at Saint Martha's Home for Foundling Girls until the age of puberty, her world is circumscribed by scrubbing floors, washing up the kitchen, and competing with thirty others for the attention of the Foundling Mother. Forced to pay entertainment calls on some of Ireland's national heroes sequestered at Saint Clement's home for Old Soldiers, Dervla is assigned to Corporal Stack, a wry malcontent, veteran of the First World War and old enough to be Dervla's grandfather. There follows an improbable and uproarious courtship between the two, their escape from their respective institutions, Dervla's endless stream of letters to the Foundling Mother, "true in sentiment but in every other way as false as a cat". Corporal Stack suffers a shocking injury, and the pair are taken in captivity to Great Manor, an Anglo-Irish estate inhabited only by a "young mistress" (a girl very like Dervla herself), her drunken brother, and a host of desolate babies. In a wonderfully unpredictable ending, the ever optimistic Dervla at last discovers the love and satisfaction she has been seeking throughout her adventures.

LC Classification NumberPS3558.A82I75 1997