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The Love Object: Stories
by
Edna O'Brien
A collection of remarkable short stories by one of the twentieth century’s most acclaimed and prolific authorsIn this collection of eight stories, Edna O’Brien writes lyrically and passionately about women’s lives. In “Irish Revel,” young Mary yearns for the promise of a sweetheart to hold on to, as a hard life stretches out before her. In “The Rug,” a woman becomes consum...more
ebook, 166 pages
Published
April 3rd 2012
by Open Road
(first published 1968)
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There are eight short stories in The Love Object Stories by Edna O’Brien. The first short story is titled The Love Object. In this story, a divorced woman falls in love with a married man. Their short affair leaves her empty and confused. She wonders if he ever loved her or if she was just a woman he used to pass the time.
The Love Object was the longest of all of the short stories. I enjoyed it more than any of the other stories. I pitied the woman (her name is never given) and her empty life. H...more
The Love Object was the longest of all of the short stories. I enjoyed it more than any of the other stories. I pitied the woman (her name is never given) and her empty life. H...more
These eight short stories from the late 1960s find Edna O'Brien treading her (then) usual ground: the frustrations and poverty of a girl growing up in rural Ireland and the confusion and insecurity when she finds herself in the spirit-sucking wider world. Both worlds now seem rather lost and distant; certainly the rural Ireland of 2010 is not the same place. The glitzy "other world" of "swinging London" and Mediterranean holiday villas, probably less so, though I would imagine if these same stor...more
Quick and light read but has some blatant sad sexuality in it.
Mar 22, 2013
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Edna O’Brien (b. 1930), an award-winning Irish author of novels, plays, and short stories, has been hailed as one of the greatest chroniclers of the female experience in the twentieth century. She is the 2011 recipient of the Frank O’Connor Prize, awarded for her short story collection Saints and Sinners. She has also received, among other honors, the Irish PEN Award for Literature, the Ulysses Me...more
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