Tara Road
By
Binchy, Maeve
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| Price: | $7.99 |
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| Categories: | General Fiction |
| ISBN: | 9780440337690 |
| Publisher: | Random House, Inc., Dell Publishing |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Maeve Binchy was born in a small village outside Dublin. She spent her childhood in Dalkey, an experience she draws on today when creating the rural villages usually at the heart of her novels. After receiving her B.A. from University College in Dublin, she began working as a teacher. The experiences she had while teaching at a Jewish school and on vacation in Israel compelled her to find work on a kibbutz. While abroad in Israel, she wrote weekly letters to her father describing life in a country constantly on the brink of war. When Binchy's father sent one of her letters to The Irish Times where it was published and earned her £18, Binchy, who had been making £16 working at the school, thought that she had truly "arrived." Continue reading...
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Helpful Customer Reviews
Tara Road
Diana (Queensbury, NY)
Wed Apr 01 2009 09:49
It was the best Maeve Binchy book so far. Ria and Marilyn swapped houses in Dublin and Stonehurst in USA and become involved in each others lives and friends. Ria's husband Danny has just left her for a young pregnant girlfriend and she has run to America to excape the memories. Her children, Annie ...more...
Valerie (Woodbridge, VA)
Thu Sep 10 2009 17:47
This book was just so-so. There were parts that I really enjoyed and then there were other parts that really dragged on and I had a hard time getting through them. The first part of the book was especially difficult since it was a lot of background, getting to know the characters and setting up wher...more...
Aimee (The United States)
Mon Nov 24 2008 17:03
Absolute drivel.
Written in simple English and the kind of soap opera that you find on daytime TV. This sort of reading is only good when your concentration is so low you can't comprehend much else beyond comics (say after a root canal, or when trapped mid-transit at an airport). The character...more...
Heather (Lindon, UT)
Sat Jan 24 2009 17:03
It was a little unsettling to read a book where everyone becomes rosy for the main character right at the beginning; I worry that things will be downhill and depressing for the remainder. However, I did become involved in the characters and enjoyed their story.
Probably rated PG-13. T...more...
Mara (Layton, UT)
Sat Jun 27 2009 16:38
I read this last summer and I can't remember how the language was so I don't know if I can comfortable recommend it. I liked it and I remembered it (which is rare for me) and kind of want to read it again- very good for summer reading. (I watched a horrible made for tv movie based on the book- don't...more...
Rowena (New York, NY)
Fri Jan 08 2010 10:36
Among Maeve Binchy's "modern" novels, Tara Road is one of my favorites. This is the story of Ria Lynch, happy housewife and mother of 2. Living in a rather naive dreamworld, Ria is jerked back to an unhappy reality when her douchey husband Danny leaves her for a 22-year-old woman (girl). I...more...
Abby (The United States)
Sun Jun 14 2009 21:21
This was a surprisingly GREAT book to read. It was so refreshing to read a book without swear words, too!! (There might have been a few, but I don't think more than three throughout the entire novel - and no F-Bombs for heaven's sake)
I wish I had a book club to talk about this book wi...more...
Kathy (Laguna Niguel, CA)
Tue Feb 23 2010 15:58
Okay. I gave it a 100 pages, and then I couldn't take any more. Based on those 100 pages, I would say that this is a poorly written story, weakly propelled by mostly boring converstation. I did not find a reason to care about these people, or their problems. I don't remember Binchy's "Circl...more...
Sarah (Culpeper, VA)
Wed Sep 16 2009 15:15
Having enjoyed many of the Oprah picks (even though I am not particularly an Oprah fan), I was very disappointed. I don't know what I expected, but halfway through the story I started to lose interest. The plot was somewhate unique, but the details were not believable--really she didn't know her hus...more...
Kristen (Provo, UT)
Sun Dec 27 2009 11:32
So, funny story, I was perusing the library book sell and this lady came up to me and told me this book was pretty interesting. I usually don't trust other random people's opinions, but I thought hey, it's a quarter. So I bought it. It had said it was part of Oprah's Book Club so that counts for som...more...
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