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The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O´Brien
Edna O'Brien
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Description for The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O´Brien
Paperback. Features stories of families, feuds, enchantment, disenchantment and the manifold bonds of love. These stories are about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and always in shimmering prose. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 422.
'O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' Alice Munro
'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like O'Brien.' Anne Enright
'Heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride
'A profound intelligence spurred on by a tangible, fizzing joy.' Megan Nolan
'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett
'A revolution.' John Banville
'Glittering energy.' Colm Tóibín
Spanning five decades of writing, and winning the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, The Love Object collects the most luminous stories by Edna O'Brien that have bewitched generation after generation. Here you will find tales of families, feuds, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571282951
SKU
V9780571282951
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99-99
About Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien wrote more than twenty celebrated novels, including her classic The Country Girls Trilogy, as well as multiple plays and works of non-fiction, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Her final novel was the acclaimed Girl, which won the Kerry Group Prize for Fiction in 2020. She was the recipient of many accolades, including the Irish PEN ... Read more
Reviews for The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O´Brien
O'Brien anatomises with a forensic eye the yearning for love ...these stories [have] extraordinary power.
Matthew Dennison The Times Every one of the stories included is a shining example of a master at work.
Lucy Scholes Observer
Matthew Dennison The Times Every one of the stories included is a shining example of a master at work.
Lucy Scholes Observer