I Wish This War Were Over

by Diana O'Hehir

Book Overview

"Reading this novel is like being young." Ursula K. Le Guin This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671678736
• ISBN13: 9780671678739
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Weight: 0.65 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.