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The story of Lucy Gault
Record details
- ISBN: 0676975445 :
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Physical Description:
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227, [1] p. ; 23 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2002.
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| Subject: | Runaway children -- Fiction Families -- Fiction Ireland -- Fiction |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadway Library | PR 6070 R4 S76 2002 (Text) | 33109008593758 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
âDear Readers and Booksellers: If you have not yet experienced the great pleasure of a story by William Trevor, I urge you to read this new novel, and to set it in pride of place in your stores. Because the haunting story of Lucy Gault will not fail to capture you with its mystery, its compassion, and the beauty of its writing.â -- Louise Dennys, Executive Publisher, Knopf Canada
William Trevor is beloved around the world as one of the finest writers today -- and with just cause: his new novel is a masterpiece of love and loss, and lives suspended in time.
Lucy Gault is nine when her parents are faced with the agonizing decision to flee Ireland to be safe from the violence that privilege and Lucyâs English mother have brought upon them -- or to stay in their home and risk losing it to the threat of arson.
Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardaneâs beautiful pastureland, the seashore below pale clay cliffs, and the nameless dog that has become her companion. So she runs away into the nearby woods to convince her parents to stay. Instead, her actions begin the unravelling of her family when they find two bits of her clothing and conclude she has thrown herself into the sea. Now desperate to be rid of the place where their much-loved daughter has died, Captain and Heloise Gault set off to wander restlessly across Europe. In the Lahardane woods, two weeks after the Gaults have gone, the groundskeeper finds the child lying lame and half-dead. He and his wife become Lucyâs life companions as she keeps a 30-year vigil of love and guilt waiting for her parentsâ return.
