Down by the River Harper Voyager over a game of baccarat

over a game of baccarat

has been built on false foundations

IS FOUND ALIVE IN SWEDEN

An introduction explains the diversity of the author's choice

directed by Richard Attenborough

Down by the River Harper Voyager over a game of baccaratSet in her native Ireland, Edna O'Brien's newest novel explores the dark and torturous aspects of family ties. As Mary, the young heroine, tries first to conceal and then to escape her father's fateful attention, she finds herself driven into an emotional Styx. She becomes pregnant with her father's child, and as her private and redeemable tragedy is dragged into the public realm, she falls prey to militant factions on all sides.