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Academy Street

Mary Costello

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Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force. It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy. It shows how the signal events of the last half century affect the course of a life lived in New York City. In sentence after sentence it captures the rhythm and intensity of inner life.

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POINTS
ISBN-13
9781782114185
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Immigration and exileSolitude and inner lifeFamily and belonging

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