Academy Street
Author: Costello, Mary
ISBN: 9781922182449
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 236mm x 152mm x 15mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
This is an intimate story about unexpected gifts and unbearable losses, and the perpetual ache for belonging. It is exquisitely written and profoundly moving.
Academy Street is the heart-breaking and evocative story of one woman's life spanning six decades.
Tess's childhood in 1940's rural Ireland is defined by the sudden death of her mother. Later, in New York, she encounters the ferocious power and calamity of love, and the effects of catastrophic fate.
The novel resonates with the rhythms of memory and home as well as those of America's greatest city.
ISBN: 9781922182449
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2014
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 236mm x 152mm x 15mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
This is an intimate story about unexpected gifts and unbearable losses, and the perpetual ache for belonging. It is exquisitely written and profoundly moving.
Academy Street is the heart-breaking and evocative story of one woman's life spanning six decades.
Tess's childhood in 1940's rural Ireland is defined by the sudden death of her mother. Later, in New York, she encounters the ferocious power and calamity of love, and the effects of catastrophic fate.
The novel resonates with the rhythms of memory and home as well as those of America's greatest city.
