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Anne Haverty
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One Day as a Tiger: A Novel |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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264 |
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1999-04-01 |
| ISBN: |
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0880016671 |
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Ecco |
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0.88 pounds |
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0.79 x 5.51 x 8.78 inches |
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| Previous givers: |
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3 TNZ (Australia), Neen (USA: ME), Vanessa (USA: FL) |
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3 Steff Price (United Kingdom), Betty (USA: RI), Amy Henry (USA: CA) |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
One Day As A Tiger tells the story of Martin Hawkins, a brilliant young historian, who turns his back on a promising academic career and returns to the family sheep-farm in Tipperary where he finds himself at odds with his conscientious brother, Pierce. Hostile to the people around him, and secretly in love with Pierce's restless wife, Etti, Martin begins to harbour strange convictions about an adopted lamb he calls Missy. One of a flock that has been 'improved' with the introduction of human genes, Missy starts to make significant impact on Martin's imagination. When Etti starts to share these sentiments, she and Martin embark on a reckless and terrible adventure.
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Betty (USA: RI) (2009/07/13):
(back cover) "Marty Hawkins is the pride of his village; a promising student at Trinity College in Dublin who seems destined to move beyond the gentle pace of his boyhood home. When senseless tragedy strikes his family, however, he begins to unravel, abandoning his academic career and forsaking his friends to return to the green hills of Fansha and the family farm.
At odds with his irreproachable brother Pierce and secretly drawn to Etti, his brother's alluring wife, Marty seeks distraction in a sickly lamb named Missy, hoping that by coaxing her to health, he might somehow heal himself. As his strange devotion to Missy grows, it is matched and soon surpassed by a more dangerous passion. Before long, another tragedy will visit the Hawkins house, and not even the whole of Fansha can contain the damage."
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http://bookmooch.com/0880016671 |
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