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Description
The author of A Fanatic Heart offers a timely novel that looks into the mind and heart of contemporary Ireland as an escaped IRA operative takes refuge in an abandoned house--until the occupant unexpectedly returns home. Reprint. NYT.
First Sentence
". . . Bastards . . . bastards . . . baaas . . . tards." He says it again and again in each and every intonation available to him, says it without moving a muscle or uttering a syllable, scarcely breathing, curled up inside the hollow of a tree once struck by lightning; cradle and coffin, foetus and corpse.
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Authors & Contributors
- Edna O'Brien (Author)
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