Word: pollexfen
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...characterization of Ireland as "the old sow that eats her farrow." But that is not the way of William Trevor. His novel takes place on Carriglas, a tiny island off the Irish coast, where a Protestant family's present griefs are rooted in the events of long ago. Sarah Pollexfen's cousins once cruelly terrorized the son of a tenant farmer; as a man he sought revenge with a bomb that accidentally killed the family butler. The servant's illegitimate child, product of a liaison with a Catholic maid, survives him. When the guilt-haunted cousins die without issue...
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