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The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan (2002, Paperback, Reprint) 
The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan (2002, Paperback, Reprint)

 
The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan (2002, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Christopher Nolan
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 2002-02-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0385720688
ISBN-13: 9780385720687
Product ID: EPID1700477
Description: Minnie O'Brien's life spans the 20th century, from her early life when she married, was widowed, and struggled to raise her five sons, to her old age as she leaves what she has earned to her favorite. Written laboriously over the course ...
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Synopsis
Minnie O'Brien's life spans the 20th century, from her early life when she married, was widowed, and struggled to raise her five sons, to her old age as she leaves what she has earned to her favorite. Written laboriously over the course of 12 years by the paraplegic author of the memoir UNDER THE EYE OF THE CLOCK, THE BANYAN TREE is an Irish epic.

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Publication Date:2002-02-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:374 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:9.6 oz

Publisher's Note
From the internationally acclaimed author of Under the Eye of the Clock, comes a novel of unsurpassed beauty and eloquence–a loving and gritty paean to the people and land of Ireland.

Minnie O’Brien is a widow in her eighties fighting to keep her farm from the clutches of her avaricious neighbor. Her three grown children long since gone, she trudges through her daily chores in the hope that her prodigal youngest will one day return to claim his birthright. Lushly written and layered with folklore and the rhythms of ordinary life, this remarkable book weaves from present to past in a moving homage to the will of the individual spirit and the rich wisdom of the collective past.

Industry Reviews
"[A] spectacularly vivid and lyrical first novel....Nolan's is essentially a sacramental view of even the humblest points at which the human, natural, and imagined worlds intersect..., and his first fiction offers the exhilaration and instruction of viewing 'everyday' things from an utterly fresh perspective....[A] work of truly individual genius."
Goodman

"Nolan writes with verve--his sentences have great brio and his vocabulary is inventive. Sometimes, though, the self-consciously Joycean linguistic flourishes obscure and undermine his narrative....While his language can be overstated, Nolan's story is appealingly understated....At the end of Joyce's PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, the protagonist leaves his mother in Ireland as he goes to travel the world; Nolan has given us a version of her story."
O'Rourke

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