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01976aam a2200289 a 4500 001 06C35F3C26C911E586BABB91DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150710010031 008 150622s2013 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0316378267 020 $a 9780316378260 040 $a $c $d SILO 082 $a 823.914 100 1 $a O'Brien, Edna. 245 14 $a The love object : $b selected stories / $c Edna O'Brien. 250 $a First North American edition. 260 $a New York, NY: $b Little, Brown and Company, $c 2013. 300 $a 528 pages. 500 $a Introduction by John Banville. 500 $a First published in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd. 520 $a The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In "A Rose in the Heart of New York," the single-mindedness of love dramatically derails the relationship between a girl and her mother, while in "Sister Imelda" and "The Creature" the strong ties between teacher and student and mother and son are ultimately broken. "The Love Object" recounts a passionate affair between the narrator and her older lover. The magnificent, mid-career title story from Lantern Slides portrays a Dublin dinner party that takes on the lives and loves of all the guests. More recent stories include "Shovel Kings" and "Old Wounds," which follows the revival and demise of the friendship between two elderly cousins. 650 0 $a Manners and customs $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Ireland $x Fiction. $x Fiction. 700 $a Banville, John. 941 $a 1 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417013218.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06C35F3C26C911E586BABB91DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search