Edna O'brien

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Title: Returning: Tales: Description:
When bachelors rode on lonely bicycles,and jam was a luxury...In these marvellous stories Edna O'Brien returns us to Ireland in the forties,focusing sharply and sensuously on the loves,fears and ghosts of her rural girlhood - memory charging each detail with regret and desire.

Title: Down By The River: Description:
DOWN BY THE RIVER begins, deceptively, in an idyllic rural setting somewhere in Ireland. By the end, its consequences have addressed and divided the political and judicial fabric of the nation. A crime of passion results in an emotional battlefield for one and all, with opposing factions taking militant sides. In the centre, a young girl struggles with the conflicts of mind and body, the teaching of her faith and her mounting bewilderment at what she might do. This is her rite of passage, a stark progress from the role of child to that of woman; an initiation into terror and beyond it to wisdom. About the Author Edna O’Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers’ Guild Prize for Fiction. Her biography of James Joyce was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in June 1999. Her recent fiction has been about Irish to;pic - religion, politics, property. In 2001 her documentary novel, In the Forest - about a brutal murder on the west coast - caused a furore in her native Ireland. It was the subject of a BBC Omnibus film.

Title: Mrs. Reinhardt And Other Stories: Description:
A collection of stories about physical and emotional comings and goings. and many set in Ireland.

Title: Wild Decembers: Description:
When a young man arrives from Australia to claim his inheritance, he changes a small Irish town for ever. Joseph Brennan sees Michael Bugler, the returned exile, as a threat. And for Breege, Joseph's younger sister, Bugler is an irresistible stranger to whose charms she must not succumb for fear of betraying her brother. A love-hate story on many levels, Wild Decembers explores the depth and darkness at the root of all ownership. With a rich and comic cast of characters, this primal story is a complex and daring work, fixed in a time and place, yet imbued with the permanence of myth. About the Author Edna O'Brien is the author of 19 books. She was the winner of the 1993 Writers' Guild Prize for Fiction.

Title: Mrs. Reinhardt (phoenix 60p Paperbacks): Description:
This small paperback contains an extract from the short story "Mrs Reinhardt".