Costello, Mary.

Academy Street.

Edinburg / London, Canongate, 2014. 14 cm x 22cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

A work of fiction in which the main protaganist, Tess, Grows up in 1940s West of Ireland and moves to New York in the 1960s.

Mary Costello is from Galway. Her short story collection, The China Factory (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. Her novel, Academy Street (2014), was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize and the EU Prize for Literature. It won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and the overall Irish Book of the Year in 2014. It has been translated into several languages. (Arts Council of Ireland website)

• Keywords: Irish · Irish Fiction · Irish Literature · Women Writers
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781782114185
• Inventory Number: 60177AB

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