A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
by Edna O'Brien
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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 show more hidden in a woman's heart. show lessTags
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Writer Edna O'Brien was born in Clare County, Ireland, in 1930 and attended Pharmaceutical College in Dublin. O'Brien, winner of the Kingsley Amis Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Price and the European Literature Prize, has written short stories, novels, plays, television plays and screenplays. She has also written for such magazines as show more Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal and The New Yorker. (Bowker Author Biography) Edna O'Brien's previous works of fiction include "Down by the River", "House of Splendid Isolation", "Time & Tide", & "Lantern Slides", which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her book about James Joyce was published in 1999 & excerpted in "The New Yorker". An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, O'Brien grew up in Ireland & now lives in London. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Un cuore fanatico
- Original title
- A Fanatic Heart
- Original publication date
- 1984
- Epigraph*
- 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"
- First words*
- Mi ha chiamata per nome, ecco tutto. "Martha", ha detto, e io mi sono resa conto che mi stava succedendo di nuovo.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Nessuno seppe mai la verità, ma è certo che Mabel invecchiò e alla fine morì senza mai riallacciare i rapporti con la famiglia e gli amici, e che è sepolta in qualche tomba sperduta e senza nome.
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- English
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