| The Love Object: Selected Stories Contributor(s): O'Brien, Edna (Author), McGoohan, Catherine (Read by), Banville, John (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1478933135 ISBN-13: 9781478933137 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 5.3" W x 5.8" (0.90 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): Banville, John: - John Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter. His novel The Book of Evidence was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Guinness Peat Aviation Award. His novel The Sea won the Booker in 2005. He sometimes writes under the open pseudonym Benjamin Black. O'Brien, Edna: - Edna O'Brien is the author of The Country Girls trilogy, The Light of Evening, The Love Object, and many other acclaimed books. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, O'Brien has lived in London for many years. |