The High Road

By Edna O'Brien

Book Overview

O'Brien's fans have waited 11 years for this passionate and lyrical novel of lost and regained love, of tragedy and salvation. Anna, the yearning narrator, is tormented by a stormy past and escapes to a lush Spanish island hoping to forget a tempestuous love affair.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374292736
• ISBN13: 9780374292737
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.9" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous prose, lesbian theme

While this book is a very good piece of literature, its story line is often stark and painful--love complicated by misunderstandings, deaths, subterfuge. Not recommended for the faint-hearted. But a great read.