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In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien 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 voicewondrous, despairing, movingexamining passionate subjects that lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a woman's heart.Roth, Philip is the author of 'A Fanatic Heart', published 2008 under ISBN 9780374531096 and ISBN 0374531099.
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