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      Down by the River

      by Edna O'Brien
      Published
      Apr 1997
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Down by the River is a newly reissued novel from Edna O'Brien, the author of Girl—"one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's Weekend Edition).

      Set in the author's native Ireland, a powerful and passionate novel about a young girl who becomes pregnant by her father—a situation made worse when it becomes fodder for the gossip mill of church, state, and the town square.

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      Mar 1998 Plume ISBN 0452278775
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      First Edition Apr 1997 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374143277
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