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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 02/19/2008
ISBN: 9780374531096
Pages: 461
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.30d