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(0)Edna O'Brien
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Wild Decembers is a newly reissued edition of the novel by Edna O'Brien, "one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's Weekend Edition).
Wild Decembers charts the quick and critical demise of relations between Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler-"the warring sons of warring sons"-in the countryside of Western Ireland. With her inimitable gift for describing the occasions of heartbreak, O'Brien brings Joseph's live for his land...
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In this contemporary story with universal resonance, Edna O'Brien delves deep into the intense relationship that exists between a mother and daughter who long for closeness yet remain eternally at odds.
From her hospital bed in Dublin, the ailing Dilly Macready eagerly awaits a visit from her long-estranged daughter, Eleanora. Years before, Eleanora fled Ireland for London when her sensuous first novel caused a local scandal. Eleanora's peripatetic
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation.
Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her...
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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, 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. In "A Rose in the Heart of New York," the single-mindedness...
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Three women (mistress, wife, and daughter) uncover their passion for the same man and confront the ways that love can simultaneously liberate and entrap. This lyrical and captivating drama weaves together their stories to construct the portrait of a man through the eyes of the women who love him.
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«En él, todo era paradójico: era introvertido y extrovertido, guapo y deforme, serio y gracioso, derrochador y mezquino, y poseía una inteligencia deslumbrante enjaulada en la magia y la malicia de un niño. […] Sus pasiones se desarrollaron muy temprano y generaron excitación, melancolía y anticipación ante la pérdida inevitable del "paraíso terrenal". Amó a mujeres y a hombres, necesitó al "otro", fuera quien fuera. Veía un rostro...
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In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience.
Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness. Throughout, there is always O'Brien's voice-wondrous, despairing, moving-examining passionate subjects that...
10) James Joyce
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Quién mejor para hablar de James Joyce que otra figura ilustre de la literatura irlandesa. Alérgica a los discursos académicos y elitistas que con tanta frecuencia genera el culto a Joyce, Edna O'Brien nos brinda un retrato vívido del escritor, guiándonos con sutileza y pulso narrativo por el itinerario vital y artístico del autor del Ulises, por las ciudades y las obras que erigieron su leyenda. Es también un homenaje a tres mujeres fundamentales...
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A newly reissued novel from the author of Girl, "one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's Weekend Edition)
"As her disturbing novel clearly reveals, Edna O'Brien possesses what Henry James called an imagination for
disaster...[Time and Tide] is an anthology of heightened moments...never less than brilliantly expressed." -Joel Conarroe, The New York Times Book Review
Time and Tide is a fragmented novel detailing the loves...
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O'Brien takes her reader into the mind of Michen O'Kane, a murder who terrorizes the countryside of western Ireland, and traces his transformation from a neglected child to a twisted killer. In the Forest is based on a true story of local horror, and O'Brien provides fragments of O'Kane's story while leaving her reader to try and make sense of his psyche.
14) Falling in Love
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"At the door is an old lover, someone who broke your heart, who is in England on business and has tracked you down..." - From The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin
Romance is in the air, tempting the imagination. Stirring tales of love, longing and desire. A great gift for your loved ones!
Rick Bass's Fires
read by Ted Marcoux
In the Rockies a woman sets fire to a parched field to take the plunge into the pool of
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