An Irish Eye

by John Hawkes

Book Overview

The narrator of this wild, highly inventive tale is the orphan Dervla O'Shannon, dubbed "Thistle" because she is "skinny and prickly and unwanted". Reared at Saint Martha's Home for Foundling Girls... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670875910
• ISBN13: 9780670875917
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

beautiful, haunting novel

This is a moving, sad book full of the feel of Ireland and adolesecnt yearning and the smell of peat moss. Lovely! Not Hawkes' best but lovely never the less a great read