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  A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories (Paperback) By (author) Edna O'Brien, Foreword by Philip Roth

  

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  Short Description for A Fanatic HeartIn these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness. Throughout, there is always O'Brien's voice--wondrous, despairing, moving--...
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  • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Published: 19 February 2008
  • Format: Paperback 461 pages
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  • Categories: Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780374531096 ISBN 10: 0374531099
  • Sales rank: 448,169

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Full description for A Fanatic Heart

• In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness. Throughout, there is always O'Brien's voice--wondrous, despairing, moving--examining passionate subjects that lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a woman's heart.