Down by the river
By: Edna O'Brien.
Edition: 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Pregnant women -- Fiction; Single women -- Fiction; Ireland -- Fiction
Description: Set in her native Ireland, Edna O'Brien's newest novel explores the dark and torturous aspects of family ties. As Mary, the young heroine, tries first to conceal and then to escape her father's fateful attention, she finds herself driven into an emotional Styx. She becomes pregnant with her father's child, and as her private - and redeemable - tragedy is dragged into the public realm, she falls prey to militant factions on all sides.