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A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed; an Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold, an outside both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land. This is a collection characterised by all of Edna O'Brien's trademark lyricism, powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Saints and Sinners
• Author: Edna O´Brien
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780571270316
• ISBN: 057127031X
• ID: 04345927
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 257 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 141 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. February 2011

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