THE KEENERS.
by Shaw, Maura D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 1932815155
- ISBN 13
- 9781932815153
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About This Item
Palm Beach, FL: : Medallion Press,, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Novel which opens in Ireland in 1846 where the potato blight has returned and the people are dying and continuing in America through 1905. "Ireland is dying. And Margaret cannot keen for an entire country. Leaving her decimated family, she flees with her husband, now a wanted man, to America. In Troy, New York, where pig iron, starched collars, and union banners herald the success of Irish immigrants, Margaret discovers something even more precious than a new life and modest prosperity. She finds the heart and soul of Ireland. And she finds it in the voice of the Keeners." INSCRIBED on the title page. 278 pp.
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- 82332
- Title
- THE KEENERS.
- Author
- Shaw, Maura D
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1932815155
- ISBN 13
- 9781932815153
- Publisher
- Medallion Press,
- Place of Publication
- Palm Beach, FL:
- Date Published
- (2005)
- Keywords
- ireland, potato famine, immigrants,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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