| Description |
961 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
| Physical Medium |
large print |
| Series |
Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
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| Summary |
Cyril Avery is not a real Averyor at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came fromand over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more. |
| Subject |
Adoptees -- Fiction.
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Friendship -- Fiction.
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Conduct of life -- Fiction.
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Large type books.
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Ireland -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Large type books.
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| ISBN |
9781432843335 (hardback) |
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1432843338 (hardcover) |
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