Nora Webster / Colm Tóibín.
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TextCopyright date: ©2014Publisher: [London] : Penguin Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 310 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781743532195; 9780141041759 (pbk.); 0141041757 (pbk.)Subject(s): Self-realization in women -- Fiction | Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Widows -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Single mothers -- Fiction | Friendships -- Fiction | Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Wexford (Ireland) -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Slowly, through the gift of music and the power of friendship, she finds a glimmer of hope and a way of starting again. As the dynamic of the family changes, she seems both fiercely self-possessed but also a figure of great moral ambiguity, making her one of the most memorable heroines in contemporary fiction. The portrait that is painted in the years that follow is harrowing, piercingly insightful, always tender and deeply true.
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It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Slowly, through the gift of music and the power of friendship, she finds a glimmer of hope and a way of starting again. As the dynamic of the family changes, she seems both fiercely self-possessed but also a figure of great moral ambiguity, making her one of the most memorable heroines in contemporary fiction. The portrait that is painted in the years that follow is harrowing, piercingly insightful, always tender and deeply true.
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