A Fanatic Heart
by Edna OBrien (9780753813089)

A Fanatic Heart (Book)

The twenty-nine stories in this volume include all nine from Returning; four interrelated stories that have previously appeared in the New Yorker; and the author's own selections from The Love Object, A Scandalous Womanand Mrs Reinhardt.Most of the stories are set either in the villages and countryside of western Ireland or London. Love and loss are the prevailing themes; the strong ties between teacher and student, husband and wife, inseparable girlfriends, and mother and son are ultimately destroyed in the crucible of time and fallibility. There are also stories of sexual intimacy, with Edna O'Brien's inimitable stamp, and those of social alienation, in this wide-ranging anthology.

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