'I'll bet the neighbours see me as an old maid and you as a sapless bachelor. Little do they know that there's more heat in this house than in all the other houses of the townland put together.' Foggage tells the story of Kevin Hurley and his twin sister Maureen, living in rural Ireland with their ailing, bed-ridden father. What makes this story unique, however, is that Kevin and Maureen have been conducting an incestuous relationship for the past three years. With as much twists and turns as a remote Irish boreen, McGinley ...
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'I'll bet the neighbours see me as an old maid and you as a sapless bachelor. Little do they know that there's more heat in this house than in all the other houses of the townland put together.' Foggage tells the story of Kevin Hurley and his twin sister Maureen, living in rural Ireland with their ailing, bed-ridden father. What makes this story unique, however, is that Kevin and Maureen have been conducting an incestuous relationship for the past three years. With as much twists and turns as a remote Irish boreen, McGinley's novel explores the tragic consequences of a relationship like no other. New Island is delighted to publish Foggage as part of its Modern Irish Classics series, which aims to give a new lease of life to some of the best of Irish writing of the last fifty years.
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Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW sunned to spine and edges and showing light shelfwear. Lightly toned, text is clear, remains a fine copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Minor wear to boards with light soiling around edges. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Edition. Fine with a Very Good Jacket. Set on a farm in the Irish countryside, with Kevin and Maureen, twins, living with their bedridden ninety-six-year-old father on the family farm, with relationships sometimes tense, but unusual and emotional. Patrick McGinley understands the Irish countryside. Binding of tan linen half cloth with gilt titles, terra-cotta paper-wrapped boards; very clean, no marks, tight and solid, square. Internals Fine. Jacket is also very clean and unmarked, with wrinkling of back side, not price clipped. 230 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. St Martins Press, New York, 1983.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has 1/2" tear along side of front cover. Front hinge flap has 1 in. Tear at top edge. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. First Edition stated. Toning to pages as well as front and rear panels. Peeling to upper front flap.; 8.10 X 5.50 X 1 inches; 230 pages.