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A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien
by O'Brien, Edna
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- Collectible - Fine
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Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1984. 1st Edition. GenuineLeatherbound. Collectible - Fine. Judy Pedersen. 6.5"x9.5". 461pp. First edition. Signed by author. First Edition Boards w/brown leatherette. Embossed w/gilt details. Gilt edges w/beige silk ribbon. Ribbed spine w/matching gilt details and letters. Marble paste downs. Signature on 2nd fep. Comes with "The Signed First Edition Society" letter. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, & unmarked. Small bump to TRCs. GIFT QUALITY. In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart 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.
Source: Publisher.
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.
Source: Publisher.
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- Blacks Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13204
- Title
- A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien
- Author
- O'Brien, Edna
- Illustrator
- Judy Pedersen
- Format/Binding
- GenuineLeatherbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1984
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