Brendan Tierney is a young Irish writer living in New York City. He is consumed by his ambition to wriie a great novel. He lives with his American wife and their two children. Kis wife must work to support the family. His mother comes over from Ireland to provide child care. The mother disapproves of the household values and morality. A deeply suspenseful domestic drama where the struggling writer protagonist plays his own Mephisto - making a Faustian pact with his child-self for literary success. The dark resolution is so viscerally searing, one really feels for the characters.

Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly soiled and in a plastic protective sleeve.  Brown boards with gilt titles have tape marks and are lightly worn.  Library withdrawn stamp to first cover page and top corner of first cover page has been cut away.  Additional library stamp to publisher page.  Internal pages are clean and unmarked.