I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life.
I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the...
A collection in which, a woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; and a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find they leave disappointed.
A collection in which, a woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amids...
When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in a fatal attraction that leads to unimaginable consequences.
When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic st...
Edna O'Brien's classic, rocket of a novel, 'Night', is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering originality.
Edna O'Brien's classic, rocket of a novel, 'Night', is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-post...
Spanning five decades of writing, 'The Love Object' takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like 'A Scandalous Woman' and 'Saints and Sinners'; stories that have bewitched generation after generation. Here you will find stories about families, feuds, love and land, enchantment, disenchantment, and throughout, the manifold bonds of love.
Spanning five decades of writing, 'The Love Object' takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like 'A Scandalous Woman' and 'Sa...
Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. But she soon discovers that independence isn't quite so straightforward.
Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. ...
A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride
The country girls are Caithleen "Kate" Brady and Bridget "Baba" Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin, they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith, bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong reasons, betraying for the wrong...
A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride
Adapted for the stage by the author, this play is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story. It was published to coincide with its UK premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre in June 2017.
Adapted for the stage by the author, this play is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story. It was published t...
it is only a matter of time before she snaps. Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's near-fatal discomfort stand for society's larger trap.
it is only a matter of time before she snaps. Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's near-f...
