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On Canaan's Side (Record no. 9639)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2011013207
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780670022922
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 707969092
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PR6052.A729
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.914
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sebastian Barry
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title On Canaan's Side
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Viking Adult
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 272 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Told in the first person, as a narrative of her life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side is the heartbreaking story of a woman whose capability to love is enormous and whose compassion, even for those who have wronged her, is astonishing. Sebastian Barry returns with the extraordinary story of Lilly Bere. Forced to flee Ireland with her fiance' as a teenager, under threat of death from the Irish Republican Army, Lilly discovers herself in America. Her rich and tragic life takes her from Chicago, where her fiance' is brutally murdered, to Cleveland, where she marries and finds happiness even as she survives the Great Depression and World War II. Joyfully pregnant at forty-three, Lilly moves to Washington, DC, after her husband mysteriously disappears, where she finds work as a cook for one of the most prominent families in the country. Lilly follows the family to Bridgehampton, and there she raises her son, Ed, who at eighteen is called up to Vietnam and vanishes on his return to America. Mr. Nolan, a close friend, is dispatched to find him and returns from the Smoky Mountain wilderness not with Ed but with Ed's young son, Bill, whom Lilly will raise and adore--until tragedy strikes.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Family Saga
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Culture/Customs
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        Lake Chapala Society Lake Chapala Society 10/16/2018   HC BARR 65451 07/17/2024 1 07/17/2024 Book

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