A first rate collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed author of House of Splendid isolation and Down by the RiverWhen all the convent girls were in love with Clark Gable...When bachelors rose on lonely bicycles, and jam was a luxury...In this excellent collection of short stories, Edna O'Brien powerfully evokes the sensations of childhood and adolescence in Ireland - the smells and tastes , the fears and joys, the sadness and the confusions.
- ISBN10 0753805340
- ISBN13 9780753805343
- Publish Date 2 November 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 March 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 160
- Language English