"It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Three women, Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her grand-daughter Helen, have arrived, after years of strife, at an uneasy peace with each other. They know that in the years ahead it will be necessary for them to keep their distance. Now, however, Declan, H...

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Main Author:	Tóibín, Colm 1955- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London Picador 1999
Edition:	1. publ.
Subjects:	Family reunions - Ireland - Fiction Mothers and daughters - Ireland - Fiction Psychologie Death > Psychological aspects > Fiction Grandmothers > Fiction Mothers and daughters > Fiction Terminally ill > Family relationships > Fiction Bruder Junge Frau Aids Ireland - Social life and customs - 20th century - Fiction Irland Ireland > Fiction Fiktionale Darstellung Domestic fiction Psychological fiction
Summary:	"It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Three women, Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her grand-daughter Helen, have arrived, after years of strife, at an uneasy peace with each other. They know that in the years ahead it will be necessary for them to keep their distance. Now, however, Declan, Helen's adored brother, is dying and the three of them come together in the grandmother's crumbling old house with two of Declan's friends. All six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, are forced to listen to each other and come to terms with each other." "The Blackwater Lightship is a novel about morals and manners, about culture clashes and clashes of personalities, but it is also a novel full of stories, as the characters give an account of themselves, and the others listen, awe struck or deeply amused at things they have never heard before."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:	273 S.
ISBN:	0330389858 0330389866