| In the Country of the Young Contributor(s): Carey, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060937742 ISBN-13: 9780060937744 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $12.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: In the 1840s, a ship full of Irish emigrants founders off the coast of Maine in a terrible winter blizzard. Fishermen from a nearby island are able to save nearly everyone--except one young girl. Then, one quiet All Hallow's Eve in the present day, the ghost of the shipwrecked girl enters an artists house, beckoned by a candle left burning in the window. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Magical Realism - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.36" W x 8.01" (0.59 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Irish - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Maine |
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| Publisher Description: On a stormy November night in 1848, a ship carrying more than a hundred Irish emigrants ran aground twenty miles off the coast of Maine. Many were saved, but some were not -- including a young girl who died crying out the name of her brother.In the present day, the artist Oisin MacDara lives in self-imposed exile on Tiranogue -- the small island where the shipwrecked Irish settled. The past is Oisin's curse, as memories of the twin sister who died tragically when he was a boy haunt him still.Then on a quiet All Hallows' Eve, a restless spirit is beckoned into his home by a candle flickering in the window: the ghost of the girl whose brief life ended on Tiranogue's shore more than a century earlier. In Oisin's house she seeks comfort and warmth, and a chance at the life that was denied her so long ago.For a lonely man chained by painful memories, nothing will ever be the same again. |
Contributor Bio(s): Carey, Lisa: - Lisa Carey is the author of The Mermaids Singing, In the Country of the Young, and Love in the Asylum. She lived in Ireland for five years and now resides in Portland, Maine, with her husband and their son. |