The Visitor

Description

"The Visitor is the haunting tale of Anastasia King, who, at the age of twenty-two, returns to her grandmother's house - 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, the grandmother's only son. "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."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

THE MAIL TRAIN rushed along toward Dublin, and all the passengers swayed and nodded with the uneven rhythm of it and kept their eyes fixed firmly in front of them as though the least movement would bring them to the end of their patience.

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Other Editions

• The VisitorPaperbackAtlantic Books2002-04-08
• The visitorCounterpoint2000-01-01
• VisitorCounterpoint Press2001-01-01
• The visitorNew Island2001-01-01
• VisitorCounterpoint Press2015-01-01
• VisitorPeninsula Press2025-01-01