The House of Splendid Isolation
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson history
Published: April 3, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781857992090
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
First sentence: ". . . Bastards . . . bastards . . . baaas . . . tards." He says it again and again in each and every intonation available to him, says it without moving a muscle or uttering a syllable, scarcely breathing, curled up inside the hollow of a tree once struck by lightning; cradle and coffin, foetus and corpse.
Description: Josie is confined to bed in her dilapidated country mansion when McGreevy, IRA terrorist hunted by the police bursts in looking for sanctuary___