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The old jest

Nancy lives with her aunt and ailing grandfather in a seaside town not far from Dublin. Eighteen and about to go to university, Nancy has spent her summer consumed in part by unrequited thoughts of her first love, Harry, a man eight years her senior. Nancy's one haven is the beach, where she has discovered an abandoned hut and claimed it as her personal sanctuary. One day, she arrives there to find that her inner sanctum has been invaded by a grizzled and desperate-looking man whom she names Cassius. An IRA foot soldier on the run, Cassius becomes something of a father figure to Nancy, and in a pivotal moment she agrees to deliver a message for him--a decision that will change her life forever. A beautiful coming-of-age novel set against the nascent Irish Troubles, The Old Jest is an award-winning portrait of loyalty, loss, and of one fateful encounter that propels a young woman into adulthood.

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  • "Dawning"@en
  • "Old jest filmed as The dawning"@en

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  • "Nancy lives with her aunt and ailing grandfather in a seaside town not far from Dublin. Eighteen and about to go to university, Nancy has spent her summer consumed in part by unrequited thoughts of her first love, Harry, a man eight years her senior. Nancy's one haven is the beach, where she has discovered an abandoned hut and claimed it as her personal sanctuary. One day, she arrives there to find that her inner sanctum has been invaded by a grizzled and desperate-looking man whom she names Cassius. An IRA foot soldier on the run, Cassius becomes something of a father figure to Nancy, and in a pivotal moment she agrees to deliver a message for him--a decision that will change her life forever. A beautiful coming-of-age novel set against the nascent Irish Troubles, The Old Jest is an award-winning portrait of loyalty, loss, and of one fateful encounter that propels a young woman into adulthood."@en
  • "Late summer near Dublin 1920, and up at the great house there are still cucumber sandwiches for tea ... yet Nancy has begun to sense that the old and charmed life of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, cannot go on forever._"@en

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  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Readers"@en
  • "Anglais (langue)"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en

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  • "Une Histoire irlandaise"
  • "Une histoire irlandaise"
  • "The Old Jest"
  • "The old jest : [a novel]"
  • "The Old jest"
  • "The old jest"@en
  • "The old jest"
  • "The old jest : a novel"@en
  • "Old jest"@en
  • "Old jest"
  • "Une histoire irlandaise : roman"
  • "The old Jest"

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