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''Edna O''Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.'' Alice Munro
''The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose there''s no one like Edna.'' Anne Enright
''Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon.'' Megan Nolan
''Brilliant and brave.'' Ann Patchett
''Glittering energy.'' Colm Tóibín

A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan''s but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed; an Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold, an outsider both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land.<

Saints and Sinners

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 2 February 2012
      ISBN-13 9780571270323
      978-0571270323
      ISBN-10 0571270328
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Edna O''Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.'' Alice Munro
      ''The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose there''s no one like Edna.'' Anne Enright
      ''Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon.'' Megan Nolan
      ''Brilliant and brave.'' Ann Patchett
      ''Glittering energy.'' Colm Tóibín

      A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan''s but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed; an Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold, an outsider both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land.<

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