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Solace : a Novel by McKeon, Belinda, 1979- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Belinda McKeon's Solace is an extraordinarily accomplished first novel--a story of a father and son thrown together by tragedy; one clinging to the old country and one plunging into the new. Set in an Ireland that catapulted into wealth at the end of the twentieth century and then suffered a swift economic decline, this is a novel about the conflicting values of the old and young generations and the stubborn, heartbreaking habits that mute the language of love. Tom and Mark Casey are a father and son on a collision course, two men who have always struggled to be at ease with each other. Tom is a farmer in the Irish midlands, the descendant of men who have farmed the same land for generations. Mark, his only son, is a doctoral student in Dublin, writing his dissertation on the nineteenth-century novelist Maria Edgeworth, who spent her life on her family's estate, not far from the Casey farm. To his father, who needs help baling the hay and ploughing the fields, Mark's academic pursuit is not man's work at all, the occupation of a schoolboy. Mark's mother negotiates a fragile peace. Then, at a party in Dublin, Mark meets Joanne Lynch, a lawyer in training whom he finds irresistib

Who reads Solace : a Novel?

Author

McKeon, Belinda, 1979-

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781451616552

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.46 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14