The Last of Summer (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Kate O’Brien
- First Published: 1943
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: 1939
- Setting: Eire
- Principal Characters: Angele Maury, Hannah Kernahans, Tom Kernahans, Martin Kernahans, Norrie O’Byrne
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, World War II, 1930’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Brothers, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Ireland
The Story:
Angele Maury was an actress, half French, half Irish, who had taken her mother’s name as her stage name in preference to Kernahans, her Irish father’s name. Both her parents were dead. On an impulse, she stopped to visit her father’s people when her company toured Ireland. She found her aunt, Hannah Kernahans, strangely hostile to her and learned that Aunt Hannah had never told her three children of their uncle’s marriage or of his daughter.
It was obvious that Aunt Hannah was fiercely jealous of any intruders from the outside world. She loved all her...
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