A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories (FSG Classics) by Edna O'Brien
English | February 19, 2008 | ISBN: 0374531099 | True EPUB | 480 pages | 2.4 MB
English | February 19, 2008 | ISBN: 0374531099 | True EPUB | 480 pages | 2.4 MB
"O'Brien tells the Irish woman's inside story. She has—as only the finest writers can—created a world; she speaks in a voice identifiably and only hers." —Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review
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.