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MOTHER OF PEARL, the first novel by an acclaimed Irish short-story writer, explores the disturbing territory of the divided self. Through the story of the kidnapping of a baby, the notion of personal history as received fiction is examined. The novel asks: what makes a family? Is it mere kinship through blood, or something more profound and intricate? What keeps it together? What tears it apart? The action of the novel is seen through the eyes of the baby's mother, the kidnapper and the child herself. By using a split narrative, Mary Morrissy draws the reader into the necessary deceptions perpetrated in the name of maternal love, developing many of the themes explored in her first book - guilt, superstition, revenge, and the rage of the excluded whose flawed vision of the world produces a dangerous yet compelling logic. In MOTHER OF PEARL, the characters, dismayed by the random hand of fate and coincidence, desperately seek to make sense of the world, and in so doing set up a chain of events that inexorably leads to tragedy. Dramatic, blackly funny and tragically topical, MOTHER OF PEARL is a remarkable achievement.
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About the Author:
Mary Morrissy was born in Dublin in 1957. She won the Hennessy Award for short stories in 1984 and her stories have appeared in several magazines, newspapers and anthologies including Best Short Stories 1992 and New Writing 2 (1993). Her first collection, A Lazy Eye, was published in 1993 and has just been reissued in Vintage. She won a Laman Literary Award in 2995. She reviews fiction for the Irish Times and the Independent on Sunday and lives in Dublin.
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Explores the territory of the divided self. Through the story of the kidnapping of a baby, the notion of personal history as received fiction is examined. Using the device of a split narrative, the novel asks such questions as: what makes a family?; what keeps it together?; and what tears it apart?
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0224040375
- ISBN 13 9780224040372
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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