cover image Motherland

Motherland

Timothy O'Grady. Anchor Books, $9 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-385-41744-0

Irish eccentrics populate this tale told by a grotesque, melancholy man whose search for his missing mother mirrors Ireland's own divided and paradoxical past. ``Sometimes mystical, frequently ironic, O'Grady's narrator speaks with a rare eloquence that gives this odyssey a grandeur seldom encountered in contemporary fiction,'' said PW. (June)