Johnny I Hardly Knew You - Softcover

Obrien, Edna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140047727 ISBN 13: 9780140047721

Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE, 1979

Synopsis

Edna O'Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish topics - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. A story of a woman who murders her lover, her son's best friend. It uncovers a world where love and hope walk hand in hand with barely concealed violence and despair, where a woman is driven, despite herself, to exact revenge for suffering. The author also wrote "The Lonely Girl".

About this edition

• Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0140047727
• ISBN 13: 9780140047721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144