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The Love Object

Selected Stories

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The Love Object

De: Edna O'Brien, John Banville - introduction
Narrado por: Catherine McGoohan
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Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master" (Harold Bloom).

As John Banville writes in his introduction to The Love Object, 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.

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.

The magnificent, mid-career title story from Lantern Slides 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.

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. The Love Object illustrates a career's worth of shimmering, potent prose from a writer of great courage, vision, and heart.

"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 Antologías y relatos breves Literatura de género Narrativa femenina Narrativa literaria
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Praise for Edna O'Brien
"Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere."—Alice Munro
"One great virtue of Edna O'Brien's writing is the sensation it gives of a world made new by language."—Seamus Heaney
"The sensibility is on two levels and shuttles back and forth, combining the innocence of childhood with the scars of maturity."—Philip Roth
"There is no living Irish writer who compares in terms of style, stamina, depth, or meaning."—Colum McCann
Praise for THE LOVE OBJECT
"When a writer as gifted as O'Brien memorializes a vanishing world, we experience not only the 'lost landscape' but the richly ambivalent emotions it has evoked."—Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement
"Every one of the stories included is a shining example of a master at work."—Lucy Scholes, Observer
As well as being an intensely enjoyable book, it is a very important publication in the history of Irish literature: the selected stories of one of the major writers of our era."—Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Irish Times
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