The Hesperides Tree - Couverture souple

Mosley, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099285878 ISBN 13 : 9780099285878

Editeur : Vintage, 2002

Synopsis

An eighteen-year-old boy goes with his parents to the west coast of Ireland where, by chance, he witnesses terrorist gun-running activity. His father is involved with a local wildlife station where biologists are studying the causes of variations among birds. On the off-shore island where this research has centred, there are ruins of the cells in which hermits in the Dark Ages had come to live and survive. He returns to an English university where he has intended to study biology or literature but finds neither of these disciplines is much concerned with wider experience and returns to Ireland to try to discover - what those old hermits were looking for? On his first visit to Ireland he had fallen in love with the glimpse of a young girl who, it had seemed, might be involved with the gun-runners. When together they go to stay on the deserted island it becomes possible to imagine it as the mythical Garden of the Hesperides with its Tree of Life hung with golden apples.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nicholas Moseley was born in 1923. He is the author of fourteen novels, including the Whitbread Book of the Year Hopeful Monsters, and, most recently, Children of Darkness and Light. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099285878
• ISBN 13: 9780099285878
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
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• Personne responsable: non disponible