{"product_id":"the-love-object-selected-stories-9780316378260","title":"The Love Object: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the \"short story master\" (Harold Bloom).  As John Banville writes in his introduction to The Love Object  Edna OBrien \"is  simply  one of the finest writers of our time.\" 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 OBriens 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\" -- \"a masterpiece of compression  distilling the pain of a lost  exiled generation\" (Sunday Times) -- and \"Old Wounds \" which follows the revival and demise of the friendship between two elderly cousins.  In 2011  Edna OBriens gifts were acknowledged with the most prestigious international award for the story  the Frank OConnor Short Story Award. The Love Object illustrates a careers worth of shimmering  potent prose from a writer of great courage  vision  and heart.  \"The most striking aspect of Edna OBriens short stories  aside from the consistent mastery with which they are executed  is their diversity.\"-John Banville\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647062466613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316378267","price":25.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780316378260.jpg?v=1781687258","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-love-object-selected-stories-9780316378260","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}