by Molly Keane · Abacus Little, Brown · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349100883
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«Loving and Giving» is a novel by Irish writer Molly Keane, published by Abacus Little, Brown in paperback (233 pages, in English).
In 1914, Nicandra grows up on the great Irish estate of Deer Forest, where an apparently perfect life is shattered after a shocking event. As an adult and married, she tries to compensate for her emptiness with acts of kindness, while social conventions and misunderstandings gradually undermine life in the house. A story of an Anglo-Irish family, death and eccentricity.
The novel was originally published in 1988; this paperback edition is from 1989 and is part of the Virago Modern Classics collection.
For readers of literary fiction and modern classics, especially those who enjoy Anglo-Irish narrative and period portraits of the early twentieth century.
Molly Keane, née Mary Nesta Skrine, and who also wrote as M. J. Farrell, was an Irish novelist and playwright.
