Description
A luminous collection spanning decades, this volume gathers Edna O’Brien’s most wrenchingly beautiful stories—elegant, sharply observed, and alive with the tensions between desire and consequence. At its center is the title story’s passionate affair with an older lover, a relationship that becomes both refuge and reckoning as power, longing, and selfhood collide. Across the collection, O’Brien returns to women navigating love, scandal, and social expectation, while men often appear as shifting forces—married, wealthy, or distant—whose influence reshapes the lives around them. With beautifully cadenced prose that can turn from humor to ache in a single breath, these stories explore themes of intimacy, agency, and the private costs of public life.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Jan 1, 2013
536 pages
ISBN: 9780571270286
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Details
First Published
1968
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Love Object by Edna O’Brien.