The Lie of the Land
Subtitle: Journeys Through Literary Cork
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: June 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781859182314
Subjects: Literary studies: general; TRAVEL & HOLIDAY; Travel; General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Travel - Foreign; English; British Isles; Ireland; Homes and haunts; Essays & Travelogues; Europe - Ireland; Cork (Ireland : County); European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; History / Ireland; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Authors, Irish; Cork; Cork (County); Literary landmarks
First sentence: Looking at evening across the landscape of North Cork from the steps of a house which would eventually be destroyed, novelist Elizabeth Bowen consoled herself in 1941 with the illusion of peace at its most ecstatic.