The Resource Academy Street, Mary Costello
Academy Street, Mary Costello
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The item Academy Street, Mary Costello represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Academy Street, Mary Costello represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Academy Street is the heart-breaking and evocative story of one woman's life spanning six decades. Tess's childhood in 1940's rural Ireland is defined by the sudden death of her mother. Later, in New York, she encounters the ferocious power and calamity of love, and the effects of catastrophic fate. The novel resonates with the rhythms of memory and home as well as those of America's greatest city
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 179 pages
- Isbn
- 9781922182449
- Label
- Academy Street
- Title
- Academy Street
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Costello
- Subject
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- trueIrish Americans
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoneliness in women
- trueMoving to a new country
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (New York) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueNew York City
- trueNurses
- truePsychological fiction
- trueSingle mothers
- Women -- Fiction
- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueImmigrants
- trueIreland
- Ireland -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueIrish American women
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Academy Street is the heart-breaking and evocative story of one woman's life spanning six decades. Tess's childhood in 1940's rural Ireland is defined by the sudden death of her mother. Later, in New York, she encounters the ferocious power and calamity of love, and the effects of catastrophic fate. The novel resonates with the rhythms of memory and home as well as those of America's greatest city
- Summary
- Following a quiet single mother and nurse who has tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with, the author paints a vibrant, emotional and hypnotic portrait of a whole life, tracing her childhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America.
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- 10392470
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Costello, Mary
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Conduct of life
- Women
- New York (N.Y.)
- Ireland
- New York (New York)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Academy Street, Mary Costello
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000053329928
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 179 pages
- Isbn
- 9781922182449
- Label
- Academy Street, Mary Costello
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000053329928
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 179 pages
- Isbn
- 9781922182449
Subject
- trueIrish Americans
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoneliness in women
- trueMoving to a new country
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (New York) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueNew York City
- trueNurses
- truePsychological fiction
- trueSingle mothers
- Women -- Fiction
- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueImmigrants
- trueIreland
- Ireland -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueIrish American women
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