Edna O'Brien

The Love Object

Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber / Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780571282951
• ISBN-10: 0571282954
• Artikelnr.: 40693963

Autorenporträt

Edna O'Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal, the Frank O'Connor Prize, the PEN/Nabokov Award For Achievement in International Literature, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. In 2021, Edna O'Brien was awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She is currently writing a play, Joyce's Women, for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, to mark the centenary of the publication of Ulysses. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years.

Rezensionen

O'Brien anatomises with a forensic eye the yearning for love ...these stories [have] extraordinary power. Matthew Dennison The Times