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I Wish This War Were Over [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Diana O'Hehir (Author)

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Publication Date: October 14, 1986 | Series: New Portway Large Print Books

I Wish This War Were Over, runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, is a coming-of-age story of love and pain set against the tumultuous background of World War II... something rare and precious: a novel of genuine distinction... Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

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"Reading this novel is like being young." -- Ursula K. Le Guin, author --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Diana OHehir is the author of four books of poetry and two novels, of which I Wish This War Were Over is the first. she has received a number of awards, including a Guggenheim Fiction Award and a National Foundation of the Arts Fiction Award. I Wish This War Were Over was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

Hardcover: 334 pages
Publisher: Chivers Press - Portway Books (October 14, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745170250
ISBN-13: 978-0745170251
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds

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This novel is a flowing, lyrical account of a nineteen year-old girl who takes a train ride cross-country to visit and care for her alcoholic mother. En route she meets an ex-lover of her mother's and they fall in love.

The mother's beauty, ephemerality, self-centered absorption and her daughter's poetic entrapment and love for her mother form the basis of this wonderful book.

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