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The Visitors Hardback - 2014
by Patrick O'Keeffe
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- Title The Visitors
- Author Patrick O'Keeffe
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition /
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 275
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2014
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0670024635I4N10
- ISBN 9780670024636 / 0670024635
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 1 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Irish - United States, FICTION / Literary
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013036972
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.92
- Quantity available 1
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Summary
A lyrical novel set in America and Ireland from the Story Prize–winning author of The Hill Road
As he did so masterfully in the connected novellas of The Hill Road, Patrick O’Keeffe’s first novel moves back and forth in time and place to weave the story of two Irish families forever linked by love, secrets, and their heritage.
James Dwyer was born in rural county Limerick before moving to Dublin as a teenager and ultimately settling in Ann Arbor. One night James’s past appears in the form of a down-and-out man named Walter, who issues an invitation for James to come to Upstate New York to visit his old childhood neighbor, Kevin Lyons. Although neither James nor Kevin particularly cares for each other, there’s no denying their complicated past. Kevin and James’s sister, Tess, were lovers while James fell hard for Kevin’s sister, Una.
Illuminating the precarious balance of family intimacies and how stories can carry over from one generation to the next, O’Keeffe’s The Visitors further delivers on the elegant prose and plotting that earned him critical acclaim and the Story Prize for The Hill Road.
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