An Irish Eye

by John Hawkes

Book Overview

The narrator of this wild, highly inventive tale is the orphan Dervla O'Shannon, dubbed "Thistle" because she is "skinny and prickly and unwanted". Reared at Saint Martha's Home for Foundling Girls until the age of puberty, her world is circumscribed by scrubbing floors, washing up the kitchen, and competing with thirty others for the attention of the Foundling Mother. Forced to pay entertainment calls on some of Ireland's national heroes sequestered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670875910
• ISBN13: 9780670875917
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

beautiful, haunting novel

This is a moving, sad book full of the feel of Ireland and adolesecnt yearning and the smell of peat moss. Lovely! Not Hawkes' best but lovely never the less a great read