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The green road : a novel / Anne Enright.

by Enright, Anne, 1962-

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Thorndike Press, c2015.

Families -- Ireland -- Fiction.

Mothers -- Fiction.

Parent and adult child -- Fiction.

Homecoming -- Fiction.

Ireland -- Fiction.

Large print ed.

448 p. (large print) : 23 cm.

"Cengage Gale Learning".

The children of Rosaleen Madigan grow up in the West of Ireland, in a world that is about to change. When her oldest brother, Dan, announces he will enter the priesthood, young Hanna watches her mother retreat in sorrow to her bed. In the years that follow, three of the children leave home for lives they could never have imagined. Dan for the frenzy of New York under the shadow of AIDS; Emmet for the backlands of Mali where he learns the fragility of love and order; actress Hanna for modern-day Dublin and the trials of motherhood. In her early old age, their difficult, wonderful mother, Rosaleen, decides to sell the family home, the house she was born in and where she raised her own family, with all its ghosts and memories. Her adult children visit for Christmas, carrying with them the complications of their present lives and the old needs of childhood as they are brought face to face with their mother's ageing and the effects her decision will have on them all.

Psychological fiction.

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