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The eight short stories of this collection have a dual theme: Ireland - its people, its personality - and woman - woman betrayed, or sacrificed, innocence involuntarily lost, happiness stolen or mislaid.
"He got to know the things she liked – coconut creams, ham paste and gin and lime. He would devise little picnics for her, bringing small jars of paste, biscuits sandwiched together, and the gin and lime in a washed- out blue magnesia bottle. When it transpired that he was a married man, she ended it as neatly as it had begun, and the only sign that her flatmates saw was that she took no supper and spent one whole day and one whole night in bed, eyes shut but not asleep."...
Edna O'Brien, born 1930, is one of the modern greats of Irish literature. Her books give a vivid portrait of lives lived, with all the pain and joy than runs through them.
This is the US hardcover first edition, 1974, with light dustmarking to the edges of the jacket, bumping to covers, and slight sun fade to the edge of the jacket.
