Time and Tide

Name: Time and Tide
Author: Edna O’Brien
ISBN: 9780374721497

Edna O’Brien

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Time and Tide

Edna O’Brien

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#3615 of 8,085 books · #1833 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1992).

An Irish woman navigates London's literary world in this novel from the author of Girl. Nell is in flight from bitter, controlling, and small-minded parents, yet risks becoming just such a mother to her own sons. She seeks comfort and acceptance, yet finds death, drugs, and "an orgy of humiliation". She seeks companionship, yet finds one after another predatory man: sadists, alcoholics, unscrupulous doctors, and even child molesters. Can Nell extract from the "the vast inhospitality of a creaking world" some measure of beauty and grace? The answer, of course, is yes—but at the price of many illusions.

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