num_pages: 480
description: In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien 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
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Ireland, Short Story Collection, Irish Literature, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 246
publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )