The ante-room / Kate O'Brien, with a new afterword by Deirdre Madden.
By: O'Brien, Kate.
Material type: BookSeries: Virago modern classics ; 325.Publisher: London : Virago, 1989Description: 306 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0860688259.Subject(s): Domestic fiction | Ireland -- Social life and customs -- FictionDDC classification: 823.912Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 823.912 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016324 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Ireland, 1880 and a prosperous, provincial family observes the three great autumnal feasts of the Church. As Teresa Mulqueen lies dying, her family gather round her and beneath this drama another, no less poignant, unfolds. Unmarried daughter Agnes awaits the return of her sister Marie-Rose and brother-in-law Vincent. She adores her sister, but secretly, pasionately, loves Vincent. And their marriage, she knows, is unhappy...Ahead lies a terrible battle between her uncompromising faith and the intensity of her love. In this delicately imagined novel, originally published in 1934, Kate O'Brien lays bare the struggles between personal need and the Catholic faith with the sympathy and insight which is the hallmark of her craft.
Book I: The Eve of All Saints -- Book II: The Feast of All Saints -- Book III: The Feast of All Souls.