num_pages: 461
description: In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness. Throughout, there is always O'Brien's voice--wondrous, despairing, moving--examining passionate subjects that lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a woman's heart.
language: English
title: A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
titlecomplete: A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories (FSG Classics)
genres: Literature, 20th Century, Irish Literature, Short Stories, Fiction, Short Story Collection, Ireland
ratings_count: 246
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux