The visitor
By: Maeve Brennan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction.; Grandmothers -- Fiction.; Runaway wives -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Visitor is the haunting tale of Anastasia King, who, at the age of twenty-two, returns to her grandmother's house - the very house where she grew up - after six long years away. She has been in Paris, comforting her disgraced and dying mother, the runaway from a disastrous marriage to Anastasia's late father, the grandmother's only son. "It's a pity she sent for you," the grandmother says, smiling with anger. "And a pity you went after her.

It broke your father's heart." Anastasia pays dearly for the choice she made, a choice that now costs her her own strong sense of family and makes her an exile - a visitor - in the place she once called home."--BOOK JACKET.