Edna O'Brien, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (264p) ISBN 978-0-618-19730-9
Based on a real triple homicide that shocked Ireland in 1994, O'Brien's short, stark and eloquent novel reveals an unforgettable prospect of hell. This hell is contained in the feverishly disturbed mind of Michen O'Kane (perhaps a...
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Edna O'Brien, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (294p) ISBN 978-0-618-71867-2
In her 20th work of fiction, O'Brien meditates with haunting lyricism on the lure of home and the compulsion to leave. Dilly, 78 and widowed, lies in a Catholic hospital in rural Ireland waiting for her elder daughter, Eleanora, to arrive at her
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Edna O'Brien, Author . Norton $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-393-07011-8
Celebrated novelist and biographer O’Brien (The Country Girls trilogy) is a keen cicerone to the strange and insatiable love life of “the lame poet with the features of Adonis.” Drawing on Marchand’s three-volume biography of
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Edna O'Brien, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-29273-7
Opening on Easter Sunday, on a verdant island to which the narrator, Anna, has fled at the end of a love affair, O'Brien's new novel ( A Fanatic Heart , The Country Girls trilogy) at first gives promise of the writing of which she is capable:...
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Edna O'Brien, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-374-18332-5
A nostalgic sense of place--sleepy moss-covered villages, grand houses, bleak seaside resorts--pervades these 12 enchanting tales by the accomplished author of The Country Girls Trilogy. O'Brien's passionate, voluble characters display a gift of...
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Edna O'Brien, Author Plume Books $11.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-452-26628-5
This collection of 12 stories conveys a nostalgic sense of place and introduces a passionate Irish cast of mostly women and girls in various stages of loneliness, love and regret. According to PW , ``The engaging voices . . . often sound as self-abso
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Edna O'Brien, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-618-04567-9
The wild Irish humor and savage Irish melancholy that are both legend and stereotype receive exemplary treatment in this powerful novel by the prolific O'Brien (Down by the River; Time and Tide; Lantern Slides). Scenic Western Ireland is the setting
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Edna O'Brien, Author Plume Books $8.95 (22p) ISBN 978-0-452-26306-2
Anna has fled to a verdant island to forget a painful love affair. Contemplating suicide, she is drawn to a peasant chambermaid. After an idyllic night on the mountainside, tragedy strikes. ``Though there are some fine scenes here in which O'Brien...
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Edna O'Brien, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (232p) ISBN 978-0-374-17309-8
History frames this ambitious, intermittently beautiful 14th novel by Irish spellbinder O'Brien (The Country Girls Trilogy). ``History is everywhere. It seeps into the soil,'' begins the author, as the ghost of a dead child drifts in a garden,...
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Edna O'Brien, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-14327-5
Inspired by a highly controversial incident that took place in Ireland a few years ago, O'Brien's latest novel (after House of Splendid Isolation) is a riveting and resonating story. Mary, a young teenager, seems an ordinary girl but hides an...
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Edna O’Brien. Little, Brown, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-12270-2
Demure reflections on her celebrated literary life well lived comprise this lovely memoir by Irish novelist and short story author O’Brien (Saints and Sinners). Organized thematically, O’Brien meanders from her deeply Catholic, decidedly respectable
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Edna O’Brien. Little, Brown, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-37823-9
In a melodramatic (and appropriate) opening, it is a “dark and stormy night” when stranger Vladimir Dragan arrives in Cloonoila, a small village in rural Ireland. Handsome, white-bearded Vlad calls himself a poet and healer. He ingratiates himself...
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Edna O'Brien, Author, Edna C'Brien, Author Plume Books $14 (240p) ISBN 978-0-452-27452-5
An elderly Irish woman develops a relationship with an escaped IRA terrorist who has sought refuge in her home in O'Brien's 14th novel. (June)
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Edna O'Brien, Author, Edna O'Brien, Read by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-618-06660-5
The poetic telling of this entertaining yet tragic tale, set in the countryside of Western Ireland, is rendered with such lush detail that you can practically smell the peat hearth. O'Brien's novel chronicles the lives of Joseph Brennan and his...
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Edna O’Brien. Little, Brown, $30 (544p) ISBN 978-0-316-37826-0
O’Brien, who introduced an Irish female perspective to the 1960s literary landscape, has produced stories over the last half-century that resonate with charm and acerbity, lyricism and terseness, nostalgia and brute force. Her early stories depict...
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Edna O'Brien, Author, Michael Foreman, Illustrator Atheneum Books $19.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-689-31318-9
Foreman's color-rich, vigorous paintings complement the celebrated author's retelling of tales from the lore of her native land. A collection for the entire family fires the imagination with the deeds of ancient heroes and mischief-makers who live...
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Edna O’Brien. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-16255-9
The harrowing story of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 provides the foundation of this emotional novel from O’Brien (The Little Red Chairs). Maryam, who narrates in a taut first person, is brutally ripped from her school in...
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