Kate O'Brien, a Literary Portrait

by Lorna Reynolds

Although Kate O'Brien is coming to be classed among the most original novelists of this century, her reputation underwent the usual period of eclipse that follows the decease of most writers. Now her novels are coming back into favour on both sides of the Atlantic. At first glance, a romantic realist whose field of operations was the rise of the middle-class from post-Famine Ireland to the second half of the present century, on closer inspection she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861402391
• ISBN13: 9780861402397
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Colin Smythe
• Length: 138 Pages