The high road

By Edna O'Brien

Book Overview

Love and tragedy converge in a seaside town in The High Road, a newly reissued novel from Edna O'Brien, the author of Girl and "one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0297794930
• ISBN13: 9780297794936
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 5.8"

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.