This Booker Prize-short listed dark satire of 20th-century Irish society is back in print.
Keane\'s brilliant sleight of hand is to allow her blinkered heroine to narrate her own development from neglected child, to ungainly debutante, to bitter spinster: Aroon understands nothing, yet she reveals all..
In the pages that follow she will make her case, reminiscing about her youth among the hunting-and-fishing classes of Ireland, a faded aristocracy dedicated to distraction even as their fortunes dwindle.
All my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives, says Aroon soon after.
In fact, a single whiff of the stuff is enough to knock the old lady dead.
Charles prepares to serve her invalid mother a splendid luncheon--the silver gleams, the linens glow--of rabbit mousse, a dish her mother despises.
The novel opens as Aroon St.
Is it possible to kill with kindness? As Molly Keane\'s Booker Prize-short-listed dark comedy suggests, not only can kindness be deadly, it just may be the best form of revenge.
This Booker Prize-short listed dark satire of 20th-century Irish society is back in print
