The Love Object Selected Stories
The Love Object Selected Stories by Edna O’Brien is a reprint edition published by Little, Brown on February 7, 2017. This collection features thirty-one stories that span five decades of O’Brien’s writing, showcasing her skill as a storyteller. The narratives provide a nuanced exploration of themes such as coming of age, class dynamics, and the complexities of familial and romantic love, all while offering a portrait of Ireland from various perspectives.
Readers will find a diverse range of tales that reflect O’Brien’s distinctive voice and her ability to weave humor into poignant moments. The stories delve into the instinct for escape and the nostalgia for home, capturing the intricacies of love and desire. This volume not only highlights O’Brien’s literary prowess but also invites readers to engage with the emotional landscapes of her characters, making it a significant addition to the realm of literary fiction. With 544 pages, this edition is presented in English and offers a comprehensive look at the author’s contributions to the short story genre.
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Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the “short story master.” (Harold Bloom)
As John Banville writes in his introduction to THE LOVE OBJECT, Edna O’Brien “is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time.” Illustrating a career’s worth of shimmering, potent prose from a writer of great courage, vision, and heart, the thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without.
Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs in these magnificent tales, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O’Brien’s distinct sense of the comical. “When O’Brien ranges farther into the lives of women and men, married and single, beyond the borders of Ireland, she describes longing and desire and the intricacies of love and adultery as keenly and memorably as any modern writer you’ll read, (NPR) “and with THE LOVE OBJECT her “mastery reveals itself in any number of ways.” (New Yorker)
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