With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("**Monkeys** takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking, exhilarating," raved the *New York Times Book Review*), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for
The light of evening: a novel
โ Scribed by Edna O'Brien
- Publisher
- Picador; Houghton Mifflin
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Edition
- 1st Mariner books ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Boston, Ireland, Ireland.
- ISBN
- 0618919732
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โฆ Synopsis
From her Dublin hospital bed, an ailing elderly woman recalls the important events and people of her life, from her emigration to America in the 1920s, to her Irish marriage, to motherhood, as she awaits a visit from her estranged daughter, Eleanora.
โฆ Subjects
Ireland
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