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Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien (Plume) (original 1984; edition 1985)

by Edna O'Brien (Author), Philip Roth (Foreword)

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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 lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a woman's heart.… (more)
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Title:Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien (Plume)
Authors:Edna O'Brien (Author)
Other authors:Philip Roth (Foreword)
Info:Plume (1985), 461 pages
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Siamo figli d'Irlanda. I grandi odi, il poco spazio, ci hanno marchiati fin dalla nascita. Io porto in me, da quand'ero nel grembo di mia madre, un cuore fanatico. - W.B. Yeats "Rimorso per un linguaggio intemperante"
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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 lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a woman's heart.

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