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A Fanatic Heart

A Fanatic Heart

by EdnaO'Brien (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $3.49
Synopsis

The twenty-nine stories in this volume include all nine from RETURNING; four uncollected stories that have previously appeared in the NEW YORKER and the author's own selections from THE LOVE OBJECT, A SCANDALOUS WOMAN and MRS REINHARDT. Love and loss, the villages and countryside of western Ireland, sexual intimacy and social alienation - everything that makes Edna O'Brien such a distinctive voice in contemporary fiction is contained in these stories.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 480
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 0753813084
ISBN 13: 9780753813089
Book Overview: Published alongside the first paperback publication of IN THE FOREST, Edna O'Brien's controversial novel about a triple murder that was a Number 1 bestseller in Ireland First paperback publication of this superb collection - the very best of Edna O'Brien's short story writing Includes an Foreword by Philip Roth Edna O'Brien is an award-winning author with a tremendous reputation: 'There are only two or three writers in the world who mean as much to me as she does. In fact, there maybe isn't one' Alice Munro 'Edna O'Brien is one of the greatest writers in the English-speaking world' New York Times Book Review Both Down by the River and House of Splendid Isolation are paperback bestsellers, with sales totally over 150,000

Author Bio
Edna O'Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish topics - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.