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Word: pulvertaft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well in the title story of The News from Ireland, which is set in the 1840s. That, of course, is the period of the great famine that sent more than 1 million Irish to the New World. It is also the time when a family of English Protestants named Pulvertaft arrives in Ireland to take over the house and estate of a dead relative. The sense of strangeness and dislocation that Trevor evokes in this story can be felt in today's Anglo-Irish relations. Verity in On the Zattere also feels out of joint. She is a beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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