The Love Object - by John Banville & Edna O'Brien (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master" (<i>Harold Bloom</i>).</b> <p/> As John Banville writes in his introduction to <i>The Love Object</i>, Edna O'Brien "is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time." The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. <p/> 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 of love dramatically derails the relationship between a girl and her mother, while in "Sister Imelda" and "The Creature" the strong ties between teacher and student and mother and son are ultimately broken. "The Love Object" recounts a passionate affair between the narrator and her older lover. <p/> The magnificent, mid-career title story from <i>Lantern Slides</i> portrays a Dublin dinner party that takes on the lives and loves of all the guests. More recent stories include "Shovel Kings" -- "a masterpiece of compression, distilling the pain of a lost, exiled generation" (Sunday Times) -- and "Old Wounds," which follows the revival and demise of the friendship between two elderly cousins. <p/> In 2011, Edna O'Brien's gifts were acknowledged with the most prestigious international award for the story, the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. <i>The Love Object</i> illustrates a career's worth of shimmering, potent prose from a writer of great courage, vision, and heart. <p/> "The most striking aspect of Edna O'Brien's short stories, aside from the consistent mastery with which they are executed, is their diversity."-John Banville<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Brilliant and memorable.... There is a harmony among all these stories that makes a whole.<i></i> <p/>--<i><b>John Casey, New York Times Book Review, "100 Notable Books of 2015"</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Edna O'Brien</b> is the author of <i>The Country Girls</i> trilogy, <i>The Light of Evening</i>, <i>The Love Object</i>, and many other acclaimed books. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, O'Brien has lived in London for many years.
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