Down By The River by Edna O'Brien
Controversial novel that challenges the moral standing of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.
Down By The River
Summary
The story opens in an idyllic and rural setting in Ireland, but a crime of passion results in an emotional battlefield for one and all, with opposing factions taking militant sides and in the centre, a young girl struggles with the conflicts of mind and body.
Down By The River Summary
About Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers' Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish to;pic - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.
Additional information
GOR008086916
9780297818069
0297818066
Down By The River by Edna O'Brien
Used - Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
1996-08-12
256
N/A
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