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Item Information       Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content     More by this author     O'Brien, Edna.     Subjects     Women -- Ireland -- Fiction.     Manners and customs -- Fiction.     Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.     Ireland -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      O'Brien, Edna.       by title:      The love object : se...      Originally published...       by call number:      FICTION OBR     Search the Web     O'Brien, Edna.     Women -- Ireland -- Fiction.     Manners and customs -- Fiction.     Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.     Ireland -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The love object : selected stories / Edna O'Brien. by O'Brien, Edna. Little Brown & Co, c2015. Call #: FICTION OBR Subjects Women -- Ireland -- Fiction.   Manners and customs -- Fiction.   Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.   Ireland -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780316378260 0316378267 Alternate title:  Originally published: Description:  xii, 528 p. ; 25 cm. Notes:  Originally published: London, Great Britain : Faber & Faber Ltd., October 2013. Contents:  Irish revel -- The Connor girls -- Tough men -- A scandalous woman -- The rug -- The creature -- The doll -- Sister Imelda -- A rose in the heart of New York -- The love object -- Number ten -- Mrs. Reinhardt -- The mouth of the cave -- Green Georgette -- Oft in the stilly night -- What a sky -- brother -- The widow -- Storm -- Long distance -- Paradise -- Lantern slides -- Shovel kings -- Madame Cassandra -- Plunder -- My two mothers -- Manhattan medley -- Inner cowboy -- Black flower -- Send my roots rain -- Old wounds. Summary:  The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. 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. Genre:  Short stories. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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