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Paperback Inishbream Book

ISBN: 0864922876

ISBN13: 9780864922878

Inishbream

A wanderer arrives by chance on Inishbream, a rocky dot in the sea just off the west coast of Ireland. A lover of boats and a strong worker, she soon marries the young owner of her stone cottage. For a time, she does her woman's work, fishes with her husband, and walks along the shore, imagining Saint Brendan and the invisible world so real to the islanders. Through the winter, she repays Inishbream storytellers with tales of coastal British Columbia, not so very different, after all, from their own. In the spring, the islanders learn that their isolation will end: the government has promised them modern houses on the mainland. The wanderer cannot wait for the migration; she must leave Inishbream and go home alone. In the islanders' soft dialect and the wanderer's own tongue, Inishbream conjures relationships between the newcomer and her husband, between the island people, the sea, and the land, and between the coastal landscapes of reality and imagination. In the uneasy peace of partial acceptance, the foreigner grows, changes, and starts to envision her own place in the world. Inishbream is also available in a hand-printed and hand-bound limited edition from Barbarian Press. That Inishbream was chosen for this exclusive private edition attests to the clarity of Theresa Kishkan's storytelling and the beauty of her writing.

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Connemara in the rain

Poetic account of one Canadian's experience of life on a small island - Inishturk - in the far west of Ireland. The miseries of winter - 'the terrible frosts and the sly damp...making old fractures of wrist and pelvis ache' soon shatter illusions. And 'the house where the drowned man lived has been empty four winters.' They say that seals are ghosts of the drowned. Plenty hereabouts!
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