Saints and Sinners
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Saints and Sinners

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eBook - ePub

Saints and Sinners

About this book

'Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' Alice Munro
'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna.' Anne Enright
'Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon.' Megan Nolan
'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett
'Glittering energy.' Colm Tóibín

A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed; an Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold, an outsider both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land.

This classic collection glows with Edna O'Brien's trademark lyricism, powerful evocations of place, and heart-breaking insight into the desires and contradictions of humanity.

This ebook features the first chapter of Edna O'Brien's stunning final novel, Girl.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780571270934
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Shovel Kings
  6. Sinners
  7. Madame Cassandra
  8. Black Flower
  9. Plunder
  10. Inner Cowboy
  11. Green Georgette
  12. Manhattan Medley
  13. Send My Roots Rain
  14. My Two Mothers
  15. Old Wounds
  16. About the Author
  17. By the Same Author
  18. New from Edna O’Brien
  19. Extract from Girl
  20. Copyright