Description
In the hush of a single sleepless night, Mary Hooligan lies awake in her bed and lets memory, desire, and regret unfurl in a luminous, unspooling stream of thought. As her mind drifts across lovers, children, and the sharp edges of her rural Irish girlhood, the novel becomes an intimate portrait of longing—both the hunger that drives her and the consequences that follow. With Edna O’Brien’s characteristically lush, lyrical prose, the story trades plot momentum for emotional clarity, revealing how a life can feel both intensely lived and painfully out of reach. Themes of loneliness, self-knowledge, and the complicated choreography of love and agency pulse beneath the night’s still surface, making this a haunting, confessional work of modern literary fiction.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Putnam~trade
Published Jun 27, 1974
128 pages
ISBN: 9780140037890
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Details
First Published
1972
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Night by Edna O’Brien.