The altruist
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Walter Keady.
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction.; Pregnant women -- Fiction.; Unmarried mothers -- Fiction.; Illegitimate children -- Fiction.; Ireland -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Eilis is a feisty young woman, growing up in an Ireland that has changed significantly since the days of her grandmother's youth. But some things do not change: Eilis, too, flouts conventional mores, especially when she decides to have a baby out of wedlock like her grandmother before her.