{"product_id":"visitor-book-maeve-brennan-9781582431611","title":"The Visitor","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom celebrated Irish writer Maeve Brennan, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Long-Winded Lady,\" comes \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e--the earliest of all of her known writings--that tells the haunting story of a young woman who returns to her grandmother's home only to face the painful consequences of long-buried family secrets\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Anastasia King returns to her grandmother's house in Dublin--the very house where she grew up--after six long years away. She has been in Paris, comforting her disgraced and dying mother, the runaway from a disastrous marriage to Anastasia's late father, her grandmother's only son.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"It's a pity she sent for you,\" the grandmother says, smiling with anger. \"And a pity you went after her. It broke your father's heart.\" Anastasia pays dearly for the choice she made, a choice that now costs her her own strong sense of family and makes her an exile--a visitor--in the place she once called home.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Found unexpectedly in a university archive, this previously unpublished novella from the 1940s is a story of Dublin and of the unkind, ungenerous, emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temper. With its sharp exploration of emotional exile and familial resentment, \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e deepens Brennan's legacy as a master of psychological tension and quiet, devastating drama.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49562158203153,"sku":"GOR003865121","price":13.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50391690772753,"sku":"CIN1582431612G","price":6.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037620273425,"sku":"NIN9781582431611","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51375017099537,"sku":"GOR014245181","price":12.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51565941948689,"sku":"CIN1582431612VG","price":4.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1582431612.jpg?v=1750959053","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/visitor-book-maeve-brennan-9781582431611","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}