The Copper Beech
de Maeve Binchy
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0385307756
- ISBN 13
- 9780385307758
- Librería
-
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The Copper Beech is a 1992 novel by Irish author Maeve Binchy.
The novel is centered on the lives of eight people, each of which have etched their dreams or desires into a large beechtree on the last day of school. The novel follows the progression of their lives and whether or not they accomplish their dreams.
From: Publishers Weekly News.
Binchy, the author is a consummate storyteller with a unique ability to draw readers into her tales of Irish life. Here again she mines sources rich in plot and character to produce a captivating narrative. The eponymous copper beech is a huge tree that shades the tiny schoolhouse in the village of Shancarrig. For generations, graduating pupils have carved their initials on the massive trunk, and the book examines what has become of some of them. Though each of the 10 chapters offers the perspective of a single character, Binchy adroitly indicates the ways in which their lives intersect. Thus, the allegedly stolen jewels that are discovered and stolen again in one early chapter become significant in later chapters. Long after two adulterous characters sneak into a Dublin hotel, it emerges that they were spotted by a small soul from Shancarrig, who passes on the information--with unforeseen consequences. A priest's dalliance with the sweet young schoolteacher is shown to have been been suspected by others in the village. The result is a charming and compelling series of interlocking stories about ordinary people who are given dimension through Binchy's empathetic insight. While this book is more fragmentary in structure than some of her previous novels, it should leave Binchy's fans wholly satisfied.
Sinopsis
In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young people carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- B-Well Ventures (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 83
- Título
- The Copper Beech
- Autor
- Maeve Binchy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Binding is intact - Near Fine Condition
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0385307756
- ISBN 13
- 9780385307758
- Editorial
- Delacorte Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
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