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Title: Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien ISBN: 0-618-12691-0 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 14 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: "...No villian need be! Passions spin the plot...."
Comment: Wild Decembers is the story of three people and the Irish mountainside they reluctantly have to share. This is a classic tragedy, full of deep love, and heartbreaking drama. Love of people, love of the land, and love of family...and how far the limits will be pushed to possess these are the elements that weave this tale. A brother Joseph, and sister, Breege, live quietly until a man from Australia, Bugler, arrives to lay claim to his deceased Uncle's land. The men argue and go to battle over land boundaries, as Breege slowly falls in love with Bugler, leading to an obvious clash of loyalties for all. The descriptions of the land read like poetry. The people are complete and full of heart and soul. You know what they are going to do and you understand why, even if you wouldn't agree with their actions.The artistry of O'Brien is that you are able to maintain hope that somehow the outcome will be different. Among O'Brien memorable cast of players are the wild sisters Rita and Reena who are nothing that you would expect! The story is beautifully sad, and classically told.
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic work of fiction
Comment: Joseph Brennan and his sister Breege have always lived in Cloontha, Ireland just like generations of Brennans before them. Joseph remains a bachelor because no woman can compete with his love for the land. Their close relationship changes when the Brennan siblings meet Australian Mick Bugler, who has recently inherited a nearby farm from a deceased relative.
Joseph and Mick initially get along quite well until the ancestral dispute between their families over land drives a wedge between them. However, Breege is attracted to the handsome newcomer who admits he has a fiancee waiting for him Down Under. As she falls in love with the Australian, she tries to reconcile the differences between Mick and her beloved brother, who will do anything to keep his innocent sister from being hurt by the "Despoiler."
WILD DECEMEBR is an excellent character-driven piece that will thrill fans of relationship dramas. The splendid story line is entertaining, as Ireland becomes vividly alive through the writer's pen. The three prime protagonists are fully developed so the audience understands their motives even as Edna O'Brien keeps her plot consistent to their individualism and their interrelationships. Readers who enjoy an Irish relationship drama will gain immense pleasure from Ms. O'Brien's novel.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 2
Summary: Been There, Read That
Comment: They say that all love stories are tragedies, and that's certainly true of this story of two men feuding over land and a woman. Set in a small village in western Ireland, the tale tackles the flaws in human nature: jealousy, envy, pride, madness, etc-without saying anything new or interesting. O'Brien sets everything up early: the reader is told this is a place where men have fought over land for centuries, and is introduced to the bachelor farmer Joseph, his pretty younger sister Breen, and their new wealthier neighbor Mick. Within the first ten pages it's pretty clear where everything is going to lead, and it grows wearisome plowing through the florid prose and many diversions to arrive at the heavily foreshadowed dark conclusion.
All the characters drift reflexively through the motions assigned to them, apparently locked into their vicious circles. None of the three main protagonists are particularly compelling or engaging, indeed the best that can be said is that one feels a deep for Breen, who is stuck in her situation. The setting itself is a kind of unreal "village-that-time-forgot" creation, where a new tractor is a big thing, the local gossip knows all, and two saucy sisters act as succubi. Ultimately, everyone in the book is a type, there are numbingly obvious metaphors (for example, Mick's cutting into a peat bed Joseph claims ownership of is symbolic of the rape Jospeh fears Mick will visit on Breen), and there's nothing here that Shakespeare and others haven't already done better.
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Title: In the Forest : A Novel by Edna O'Brien ISBN: 0618339655 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 17 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Down by the River by Edna O'Brien ISBN: 0452278775 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue by Edna O'Brien ISBN: 0452263948 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Mother Ireland by Edna O'Brien ISBN: 0452280508 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'Brien, Edna C'Brien ISBN: 0452274524 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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