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- ISBN: 0374100527
- ISBN: 9780374100520
- Physical Description 145 pages
- Edition First American edition.
- Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Copyright ©2014
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General Note: | Originally published: Great Britain : Canongate, 2014. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 24.99 |
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Academy Street : A Novel
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Summary
Academy Street : A Novel
A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving reencounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force. It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy. It shows how the signal events of the last half century affect the course of a life lived in New York City. Anne Enright has said that Costello's first collection of stories, The China Factory , "has the feel of work that refused to be abandoned; of stories that were written for the sake of getting something important right . . . Her writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand" ( The Guardian ). Academy Street is driven by this same urgency. In sentence after sentence it captures the rhythm and intensity of inner life.