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- ISBN 9781628972566
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 2018
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication City/Country: Normal, US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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After more than thirty years in New York City, Elaine Nichols returns home to Ireland to her invalid father and his geriatric Alsatian dog. As a pregnant teenager she was sent away to avoid scandal and possible legal consequences. Shuttling back and forth between two time zones-the 1970s and the present-and set in a Cheever-esque suburb of sadness and shame, The Lives of Women deals with the savagery of respectability, betrayal, and the desperation that ensues when a sixteen-year-old girl gets pregnant and feels she has no one to help her, apart from her friends. Hickey (The Cold Eye of Heaven, Last Train from Liguria) shows herself to be a storyteller of rare ability and a stylist of clarifying beauty.
Christine Dwyer Hickey is a multi-award-winning novelist and short story writer, teacher, and member of the Irish Arts Academy and Aosdána. Her novel The Cold Eye of Heaven won the Irish Novel of the Year award in 2012, and Tatty (2005) was named one of the Fifty Irish Books of the Decade. She divides her time between Ireland and Italy.
