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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75. Seller Inventory # G0312089198I3N00
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75. Seller Inventory # G0312089198I3N00
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75. Seller Inventory # G0312089198I3N10
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75. Seller Inventory # G0312089198I4N10
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75. Seller Inventory # G0312089198I4N00
Book Description softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches; 160 pages. Seller Inventory # 340629
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st US edition ; 1st printing ; 160 p. ; 22 cm. ; LC: DA995.I55; Dewey: 941.7082/3/092 ; OCLC: 27068869 ; ISBN: 0312089198 (hbk.); 9780312089191 (hbk.); ; LCCN: 92-43884 ; black cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; Originally published: Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland : Brandon Book Publishers, 1992.; An account of everyday life in the village of Innishannon, Ireland, which records the transition from the traditional to a 'modern' way of life in the 1960s. ; The third of Alice Taylor's unique accounts of life in the Irish countryside, and another bestseller with universal appeal. "What makes the story unique is Taylor's disarming style; she writes as though she were sitting next to you, at dusk, recounting the events of her week.Taylor has a knack for finding the universal truth in daily details."-Los Angeles Times. "The Village is the third in the trilogy, and will, I believe, be acknowledged the best."-Boston Irish Reporter. "Taylor is in love with life, in love with family, in love with people, and in love with nature, and all this affection is evident in every page of the book."-Irish Echo . ; Alice Taylor worked as a telephonist in Killarney and Bandon. When she married, she moved to Innishannon where she ran a guesthouse at first, then the supermarket and post office. She and her husband, Gabriel Murphy, who sadly passed away in 2005, had four sons and one daughter. In 1984 she edited and published the first issue of Candlelight , a local magazine which has since appeared annually. In 1986 she published an illustrated collection of her own verse.To School Through the Fields was published in May 1988. It was an immediate success, launching Alice on a series of signing sessions, talks and readings the length and breadth of Ireland. Her first radio interview, forty two minutes long on RTÉ Radio's Gay Byrne Show, was the most talked about radio programme of 1988.she has continued writing fiction, non-fiction and poetry since." ; Contents : Comings and goings -- Well-heeled -- Working girl -- Village roots -- Jacky's -- Village wife -- Job Satisfaction -- Stubb's list -- Angel on the roof -- Is that it? -- Divine mechanic -- The open door -- Men alone -- The shed -- God's man in the village -- The second step -- Little bits of paper -- Come on the ROvers -- The case under the bed -- The village shopkeeper -- Friends and neighbors -- Mature motherhood -- Changing times -- The chapel woman -- They were great women -- Portrait of a village -- The carers -- Verbal artist -- That could be handy some day -- The Forge - My Place ; VG. Book. Seller Inventory # 006424
Book Description Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Sehr gut. 160 Seiten ex Library Book / aus einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 318. Seller Inventory # 283408
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