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Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master" (Harold Bloom).

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

"The Love Object" was the title story of Edna O'Brien's first collection of short fiction--a collection that began the career of, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the finest short story writers of our time." In it, O'Brien tells the timeless story of a doomed love... Read Full Overview