The Ante-Room - Virago Modern Classics

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The Ante-Room

The Ante-Room - Virago Modern Classics

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Description

Ireland, 1880 and a prosperous, provincial family observes the three great autumnal feasts of the Church. As Teresa Mulqueen lies dying, her family gather round her and beneath this drama another, no less poignant, unfolds. Unmarried daughter Agnes awaits the return of her sister Marie-Rose and brother-in-law Vincent. She adores her sister, but secretly, pasionately, loves Vincent. And their marriage, she knows, is unhappy...Ahead lies a terrible battle between her uncompromising faith and the intensity of her love. In this delicately imagined novel, originally published in 1934, Kate O'Brien lays bare the struggles between personal need and the Catholic faith with the sympathy and insight which is the hallmark of her craft.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781844083176
ISBN10 1844083179
Number Of Pages 288
Item Weight 201 g
Product Dimensions 131 x 196 x 19 mm
Publisher / Reseller Little, Brown Book Group
Format paperback
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A grave and beautiful story, exquisitely composed and cut to a jewel-like fineness * Daily Telegraph *
Rush out for the works of Kate O'Brien. You are in for a treat -- Val Hennessy
A gem of a novel -- Tamsin Hargreaves
Guilt-drenched and death-driven * Kirkus Reviews *
A grave and beautiful story, exquisitely composed and cut to a jewel-like fineness * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
A gem of a novel * TAMSIN HARGREAVES *

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Author's Bio

Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) lived in London and also in Spain, where she developed a passionate and enduring love of Spanish literature and culture. One of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, her fiction broke new ground in Irish writing by focusing on the prosperous Catholic bourgeoisie and by giving central importance to women's struggle for selfhood in a rigidly sex-stereotyped society.

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