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Life sentences / Billy O'Callaghan.

O'Callaghan, Billy, (author.).

Summary:
"The sweeping story of one Irish family's fight for sur-vival makes for an unfor-gettable tale of love, aban-donment, hunger, and re-demption. At just sixteen, Nancy Mar-tin leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the main-land, the only member of her family to survive the effects of the Great Famine. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork City, she is irrepressibly drawn to the charismatic gardener Michael Egan, sparking a love affair and a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations. Spanning more than a cen-tury, Billy O'Callaghan's Life Sentences weaves to-gether the journey of an Irish family determined against all odds to be free. In 1920, Nancy's son Jer has lived through battles of his own as a soldier in the Great War. Now drunk in a jail cell, he struggles to piece together where he has come from, and who he wants to be. And in the ear-ly 1980s, Jer's youngest child Nellie is nearing the end of her life in a council house just steps away from her childhood home; remembering the night when she and her family stole back something that was rightfully theirs, she imagines what lies ahead for those who will survive her. This moving portrait of life in Ireland is set in the vil-lage where O'Callaghan's family has lived for genera-tions, and is partly based on stories told by his par-ents and grandparents. His writing is imbued with lived experience and hard-earned truths, creating a novel so rich in life and empathy it is impossible to let go of these characters. This ambitious and lyrical family saga confirms Billy O'Callaghan as one of the finest living Irish writers"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781567927320
  • ISBN: 1567927327
  • Physical Description: 189 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Godine, 2022.
Subject: Families > Fiction.
Generations > Fiction.
Survival > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Ireland > Fiction.
Genre: Novels.

Available copies

  • 12 of 12 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library FICTION OCALLAG (Text) 50686016167616 Adult Fiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library CD F O'Ca (Text) 00139988 ADULT Audiobook Fiction Available -
Exeter Community Library OCA (Text) 33249025332465 Fiction Available -
Harbaugh-Thomas Library (Biglerville) FIC O'CALLAGHAN BILLY (Text)
Endowment: Susan Schubart Named Endowment, 2022
35740635834856 Fiction Available -
Highland Community Library F O'CA (Text) 35610000992441 HGHM Fiction Available -
Kutztown Community Library OCA (Text) 33249024871935 Fiction Available -
Martin Library Adults OCA Fiction (Text) 33454005868237 Reading Room Balcony Available -
Mason-Dixon Public Library Adults OCA Fiction (Text) 34262000775581 Main Room Available -
Pottsville Free Public Library FIC (Text) 30003009099753 Adult Fiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Fiction O'Callaghan (Text) 33223008919382 Fiction Available -

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