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Viking
March 2014
On Sale: March 13, 2014
Featuring: James Dwyer; Kevin Lyons
288 pages
ISBN: 0670024635
EAN: 9780670024636
Kindle: B00DMCV610
Hardcover / e-Book
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A lyrical novel set in America and Ireland from the Story
Prize-winning author of The Hill Road As he did so masterfully in the connected novellas of The
Hill Road, Patrick O’Keeffe’s first novel moves back and
forth in time and place to weave the story of two Irish
families forever linked by love, secrets, and their heritage. James Dwyer was born in rural county Limerick before moving
to Dublin as a teenager and ultimately settling in Ann
Arbor. One night James’s past appears in the form of a
down-and-out man named Walter, who issues an invitation for
James to come to Upstate New York to visit his old childhood
neighbor, Kevin Lyons. Although neither James nor Kevin
particularly cares for each other, there’s no denying their
complicated past. Kevin and James’s sister, Tess, were
lovers while James fell hard for Kevin’s sister, Una. Illuminating the precarious balance of family intimacies and
how stories can carry over from one generation to the next,
O’Keeffe’s The Visitors further delivers on the elegant
prose and plotting that earned him critical acclaim and the
Story Prize for The Hill Road.
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