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Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 304 Publisher: Mariner Books From her hospital bed in Dublin THE ELDERLY Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter Eleanora From London The epochs of her life pass before her; emigrating to America in the 1920s. a romantic liaison she had there. the destiny that ought her back to Ireland. and her marriage. She also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner. and Dilly's heart-rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her daughter. Eleanora's visit does not prove to be the glad reunion that it might have been and. in her sudden departure. she leaves behind the secret journal of their stormy relationship. The Light of Evening is a novel of dreams and oken dreams but. at its core. is the realisation that the bond between mother and child is uneakable. stronger even than death. - This text refers to an alternate ...

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With its loving evocation of the Irish landscape, its cinematic portrait of New York in the 1920s as seen through the eyes of an immigrant, and its central mother-daughter relationship, "The Light of Evening" is certain to bring this daring writer her widest audience yet.
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İO'Brien¨ evokes the cruelty of estrangement while allowing her characters to remain sympathetic and giving them real voice.

O'Brien's dense patchwork of past and present in varied voices...is lush with wild yet carefully bridled language...vivid in imagery

Richly layered plotting and an impressive evocation of setting make a good foundation for O'Brien's deft, poised, and compassionate fashioning of her...character

[O'Brien] evokes the cruelty of estrangement while allowing her characters to remain sympathetic and giving them real voice.

" Fully merits the adjective ' bravura.' "

" Lush with wild yet carefully bridled language and vivid in imagery."

" [O' Brien] understands the honeycomb of family life like few writers at work today."

" Philip Roth has called Edna O' Brien the most gifted woman now writing fiction in English, and it is hard not to agree."

" A delicate, everyday, even humorous love between mother and daughter is revealed as the grandest of passions." -- Nuala O' Faolain

" O' Brien' s vivid, musical prose wafts us into the past, enveloping us in its sights and sounds and smells . . . surprising yet satisfying."

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  • PublisherMariner Books
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 0618919732
  • ISBN 13 9780618919734
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages294
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