Wild Decembers - Brossura

EDNA O’BRIEN is the author of eighteen works of fiction, including the New York Times Notable Books and Book Sense picks Wild Decembers and In the Forest, and Lantern Slides, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2002 she won the National Medal for Fiction from the National Arts Club. An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, O’Brien was born and grew up in Ireland and has lived in London for many years.

When Mick Bugler arrives in the small town of his ancestors to claim his inheritance, his nearest neighbors are Joseph Brennan and his sister Breege. An expansive Australian with an insensitivity to his neighbor's deeply felt commitments to his farm, Mick invites the enmity which develops when he opportunistically pre-empts the fields Joe has rented over a long period of time and challenges him regarding ownership of land. The resentments come to a head when Joe senses and moves to prevent a relationship between Mick and Breege.