Overview
Married in 1922 to Peter O'Brien, a good and decent man who nonetheless harbors a terrible secret, Minnie bears him three children: Brendan, who joins the Church, rises to become a bishop, and is quietly drinking himself to death in New York; Sheila, who marries above herself to a wealthy but nasty Dublin businessman (her marriage, Minnie muses, is "a funeral set to music"); and Francis, the youngest, who leaves home at age seventeen to wander the world in search of fame or fortunehopefully both. It is for himMinnie's favorite, the prodigal sonthat she jealously struggles to keep the five fields willed her by her husband from the clutches of her ambitious and unscrupulous neighbor Jude Fortune. For, she is sure, one day soon Frankie will put an end to his wanderlust and come home to claim what is rightfully his.
Ostensibly bucolic, The Banyan Treefeisty and colorful, filled with humor and lovealso demonstrates forcibly that the gentle world of Minnie's youth is gone forever.
This book title, The Banyan Tree (A Novel), ISBN: 9781611457575, by Christopher Nolan, published by Arcade (May 6, 2014) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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