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      The High Road

      by Edna O'Brien
      Published
      Nov 1988
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Love and tragedy converge in a seaside town in The High Road, a newly reissued novel from Edna O'Brien, the author of Girl and "one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's Weekend Edition)

      This richly peopled, compellingly readable novel explores the many lives of women—as mystic, mother, daughter, and lover. There is Iris, with her "winsome wonsome" ways, no longer young; there is Charlotte, a troubled debutante who has fled from society; and there is the narrator, Anna, who feels that her emotional life has folded until she meets a young Spanish girl named Catalina.

      Set in a seaside enclave on the Mediterranean coast, The High Road is a passionate account of lost love and the return to loving, where currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fiery instinct for survival.

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      Oct 1989 Plume ISBN13 9780452263062 ISBN10 0452263069
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      Mar 2022 Picador ISBN13 9780374538804 ISBN10 0374538808
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      First Edition Nov 1988 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374292737 ISBN10 0374292736
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      Jan 1988 Orion (UK) ISBN13 9780297794936 ISBN10 0297794930
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      Dec 2014 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374721480 ISBN10 0374721483
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      Sep 2019 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN10 B07NL3735W
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      Jan 1992 Chivers Audio Books ISBN13 9781560549635 ISBN10 1560549637
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      Dec 2014 Audible Studios ISBN10 B00R1USWJS
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      Jun 2016 Brilliance Audio ISBN13 9781531841065 ISBN10 1531841066
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