The love object
Subtitle: selected stories
By: Edna O'Brien
Contributors: Banville, John, writer of introduction
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780571270286; 9780571282968
Subjects: Families; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like A Scandalous Woman and Saints and Sinners; stories such as 'Shovel Kings', 'Irish Revel', 'Lantern Slides' and 'Paradise' that have bewitched generation after generation. Referred to in the New York Review of Books by Harold Bloom as 'the short story master', Edna O'Brien's stories are a cumulative portrait of a nation, seen from within and without. Here you will find stories about families, feuds, love and land; enchantment, disenchantment, and throughout, the manifold bonds of love. Here are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and always the shimmering, potent prose." - Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John Banville; title: Irish revel; title: The Connor girls; title: Tough men; title: A scandalous woman; title: The rug; title: The creature; title: The doll; title: Sister Imelda; title: A rose in the heart of New York; title: The love object; title: Number ten; title: Mrs. Reinhardt; title: The mouth of the cave; title: Green Georgette; title: Oft in the stilly night; title: What a sky; title: Brother; title: The widow; title: Storm; title: Long distance; title: Paradise; title: Lantern slides; title: Shovel kings; title: Madame Cassandra; title: Plunder; title: My two mothers; title: Manhattan medley; title: Inner cowboy; title: Black flower; title: Send my roots rain; title: Old wounds.