Down by the River
  • Published:
    Apr-1997 (Hardcover)
    Mar-1998 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    272
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Down by the River is a newly reissued novel from Edna O'Brien, the author of Girl -- “one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR's Weekend Edition).

Set in the author's native Ireland, a powerful and passionate novel about a young girl who becomes pregnant by her father -- a situation made worse when it becomes fodder for the gossip mill of church, state, and the town square.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Mar-1998
    • Plume
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0452278775
    • ISBN13: 9780452278776
    •  
    • Jun-2002
    • Orion (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1857998731
    • ISBN13: 9781857998733
    •  
    • Mar-2022
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0374538832
    • ISBN13: 9780374538835
    • First Edition
    • Apr-1997
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374143277
    • ISBN13: 9780374143275
    •  
    • Feb-2022
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Mar-2022
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0374721513
    • ISBN13: 9780374721510



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