| The Love Object Lib/E: Selected Stories Contributor(s): O'Brien, Edna (Author), Banville, John (Contribution by), Various Narrators (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1478933100 ISBN-13: 9781478933106 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $111.59 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 6.9" W x 6.1" (1.05 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the short story master (Harold Bloom). As John Banville writes in his introduction to The Love Object, Edna O'Brien is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time. The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In A Rose in the Heart of New York, the single-mindedness of love dramatically derails the relationship between a girl and her mother, while in Sister Imelda and The Creature the strong ties between teacher and student and mother and son are ultimately broken. The Love Object recounts a passionate affair between the narrator and her older lover. The magnificent, mid-career title story from Lantern Slides portrays a Dublin dinner party that takes on the lives and loves of all the guests. More recent stories include Shovel Kings, a masterpiece of compression, distilling the pain of a lost, exiled generation (Sunday Times); and Old Wounds, which follows the revival and demise of the friendship between two elderly cousins. In 2011 Edna O'Brien's gifts were acknowledged with the most prestigious international award for the story, the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. The Love Object illustrates a career's worth of shimmering, potent prose from a writer of great courage, vision, and heart. |
Contributor Bio(s): O'Brien, Edna: - Edna O'Brien is the author of The Country Girls Trilogy, The Light of Evening, Saints and Sinners, Country Girl, and other widely acclaimed books. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years.Banville, John: - John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of more than a dozen novels and has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. In 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin. Various Narrators: - Coming soon... |