- Mothers and sons, Widows, Self-realization in women, Fiction
"Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it.
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Earnest, contemplative, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 373
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781439138335
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About Colm Tóibín · 1955
Irish novelist and writer
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