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On Canaan's Side (Hardback)
$22.04 - Save $3.91 (15%) - RRP $25.95 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for On Canaan's SideTold in the first person, "On Canaan's Side" is at once epic and intimate. Spanning nearly seven decades, from the Great Depression through World War II to the Vietnam War, it is the heartbreaking story of a woman whose capability to love is enormous, and whose compassion, even for those who have wronged her, is astonishing.
Full description- Publisher: Viking Books
- Published: 08 September 2011
- Format: Hardback 272 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780670022922 ISBN 10: 0670022926
- Sales rank: 96,240
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Full description for On Canaan's Side
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of "The Secret Scripture" comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America. Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, "On Canaan's Side" opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland, at the end of the First World War, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's story unfolds as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, from the Great Depression to World War II and the Vietnam War, it is the heartbreaking story of a woman whose capability to love is enormous, and whose compassion, even for those who have wronged her, is astonishing.
