Description
An Irish writer living between worlds, *Pray for the Wanderer* traces the intimate ache of choosing—again and again—between the liberating possibilities of life abroad and the magnetic pull of home’s beauty, familiarity, and safety. As the protagonist’s artistic ambitions collide with longing and guilt, the novel becomes a study of emotional displacement: what it costs to be free, and what it costs to belong. With Kate O’Brien’s lyrical, psychologically attentive style, the book explores themes of exile and return, creative independence, national identity, and the quiet negotiations of love, duty, and selfhood. Ultimately, it offers a compassionate portrait of a life lived in motion, where every departure carries the weight of prayer and every return asks for forgiveness.
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paperback
Chivers
Published Jan 1, 1976
302 pages
ISBN: 0859971511
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First Published
1938
Language
eng
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