O'BRIEN, Edna; Illustrated by Judy Pedersen.
A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories.
Limited First Edition of Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart; Signed by Her
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984.
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Signed limited first edition of this collection of short stories mostly set in Ireland, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. In fine condition.
"The stories set in the heartland of Ireland almost always depict women - with men, without men, on the make, on the loose, cracking up, women holding to reality by the skin of their teeth. Many are love stories, among them eerily intimate stories relating to sexual love, and these are what people chiefly associate with Edna O'Brien. But her range is wider than that and there is an acute, sometimes searing, social awareness. The worlds depicted are not just those of small farms full of lovelorn women and inebriate men, but also the larger world of cities, of resorts, of estrangement, the world of the very rich and careless" (Philip Roth).
A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories.
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