James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
WITHOUT MY CLOAK (Virago Modern Classics)
An Irish novel about family fracture, return, and the cost of belonging.
Work Information
Within a family history of silences, the meaning of home is tested.
Available in English.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Random House, Inc.
- Published
- 1986-10-01
- Pages
- 496 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 3.15 x 19.81 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780860687603
- ISBN-10
- 0860687600
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the Considines a leading Mellick family. In turn, his son Anthony builds a fine house in the country for his wife and childrenmost especially for his adored son Dennis. Little does he know that when Dennis grows up he will threaten the toil of generations with his love for a peasant girl. A stirring family saga of divided loyalties and individual freedom; of matches made and lost; and of the constraints of religion and family pride.
Kate O'Brien (1897-1974), one of Ireland's greatest and best-loved writers, was born in Limerick. As well as writing plays, travel and biography, she published nine beloved novels.
Reviews
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Wasn't as good as I'd expected.