| "No one else writing today achieveswhat O Brien does: the exploration o~passionate subjects, and a deftness andprecision of language This relent-less, careful voice cannot but, as shewould say, speak true." --MARY CORYDON, The Washington Post Book WorldThe twentynine stories in this volumeinclude all nine from Edna O Brien smost recent collection, Returning(1981); four uncollected, interrelatedstories that appeared in The New Yorkerfrom 1979 through 1981; and theauthor s selections from The Love Object(1968), A Scandalous Woman (1974),and A Rose in the Heart (1978). Most of the stories are set either in thevillages and countryside of western Ire-land, where O Brien grew up, or inLondon, where she has lived for overtwenty five years. Love and loss are theprevailing themes: in the brilliant, andrepresentative, "A Rose in the Heart ofNew York," the single mindedness oflove dramatically derails the relationshipbetween a girl and her mother, while in"Sister hnelda," "Number 10," "Sav-ages," and "The Creature," the strongties between teacher and student, hus-band and wife, inseparable girl friends,and mother and son are ultimately de-stroyed in the crucible of time and falli-bility. There are also stories of sexual |
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