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Returning by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
A first rate collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed author of House of Splendid isolation and Down by the RiverWhen all the convent girls were in love with Clark Gable...When bachelors rose on lonely bicycles, and jam was a luxury...In this excellent collection of short stories, Edna ...Show more
Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
A collection in which, a woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; and a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find ...Show more
Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find - for all the promise of t ...Show more
Tales for the Telling: Irish Folk & Fairy Tales by Edna O'Brien
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
These 12 enchanting stories of ancient magic, daring deeds, dashing heroes, and mythical creatures sparkle with wit, nonsense, and naughtiness. Tales for the Telling features traditional Irish folk and fairy tales. In "Two Giants," Irish giant Finn, no longer in the first flush of youth, is challenged ...Show more
The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
The trilogy follows the lives of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan from the confines of a convent school in the Irish countryside to the bright lights of Dublin, and on to the unexpected challenges of married life in London. These are novels about innocence and youth, love and passion, dreams and r ...Show more
The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see th ...Show more
The Country Girls (h/B) by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Classic Series
This novel tells the story of two Irish girls, Caithleen Brady (Cait) and Bridget Brennan (Baba), and their escape from a life filled with the countryside and the convent, to the allure of Dublin.
The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
With The Light of the Evening Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her first novel, rural Ireland and the relationship between mother and daughter. Whereas her first novel The Country Girls was, as she once said, 'a simple little tale of two girls who were trying to burst out of their gym frocks and the ...Show more
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
When a wanted war criminal, masquerading as a healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this searing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequence of that fatal attraction. This is a story about love, the artif ...Show more
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/ Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handso ...Show more
The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien by Edna O'Brien
Category: Fiction
Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. 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 suc ...Show more