I Wish This War Were Over

by Diana O'Hehir

Book Overview

"Reading this novel is like being young." Ursula K. Le Guin

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689114427
• ISBN13: 9780689114427
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Young Woman's Love for Her Alcoholic Mother

This novel is a flowing, lyrical account of a nineteen year-old girl who takes a train ride cross-country to visit and care for her alcoholic mother. En route she meets an ex-lover of her mother's and they fall in love. The mother's beauty, ephemerality, self-centered absorption and her daughter's poetic entrapment and love for her mother form the basis of this wonderful book.