A Fanatic Heart

Edna O'Brien

From Shelf: Edna O'Brien, 1930 - 2024

The first paperback edition of a dazzling selection of Edna O'Brien's finest short stories.

The twenty-nine stories in this volume include all nine from RETURNING; four uncollected stories that have previously appeared in the NEW YORKER and the author's own selections from THE LOVE OBJECT, A SCANDALOUS WOMAN and MRS REINHARDT. Love and loss, the villages and countryside of western Ireland, sexual intimacy and social alienation - everything that makes Edna O'Brien such a distinctive voice in contemporary fiction is contained in these stories.

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