Casualties Of Peace
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Wanda, a glass-blower of rare sensitivity, lives in quiet retreat from the world, haunted by a violent marriage and shielded by the gentle companionship of her friend Patsy — yet peace, for these women, is a condition that love and men will not permit. Casualties of Peace, published in 1966, is a searing examination of female vulnerability and the invisible wounds inflicted by intimacy, set against the deceptively calm rhythms of domestic Irish life. Edna O'Brien constructs a world in which the ordinary becomes treacherous, tracing the psychological terrain of two women whose inner lives are rich, turbulent, and ultimately defenceless against the forces arrayed against them. O'Brien's prose is luminous and unflinching — poetic in its cadence yet brutal in its honesty — cementing her place among the most significant Irish voices of the twentieth century. Thematically, the novel interrogates the myth of sanctuary, asking whether any woman of feeling can truly find refuge in a world shaped by masculine desire and violence. For readers who have encountered O'Brien's earlier Country Girls trilogy, this novel represents a darker, more searching evolution of her vision — and for those yet to discover her, it is an electrifying introduction to a writer who renders the female soul with devastating precision.
Author: Edna O'Brien
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Wanda, a glass-blower of rare sensitivity, lives in quiet retreat from the world, haunted by a violent marriage and shielded by the gentle companionship of her friend Patsy — yet peace, for these women, is a condition that love and men will not permit. Casualties of Peace, published in 1966, is a searing examination of female vulnerability and the invisible wounds inflicted by intimacy, set against the deceptively calm rhythms of domestic Irish life. Edna O'Brien constructs a world in which the ordinary becomes treacherous, tracing the psychological terrain of two women whose inner lives are rich, turbulent, and ultimately defenceless against the forces arrayed against them. O'Brien's prose is luminous and unflinching — poetic in its cadence yet brutal in its honesty — cementing her place among the most significant Irish voices of the twentieth century. Thematically, the novel interrogates the myth of sanctuary, asking whether any woman of feeling can truly find refuge in a world shaped by masculine desire and violence. For readers who have encountered O'Brien's earlier Country Girls trilogy, this novel represents a darker, more searching evolution of her vision — and for those yet to discover her, it is an electrifying introduction to a writer who renders the female soul with devastating precision.