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1	House of Splendid Isolation more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist Josie, the ailing, elderly inhabitant of an Irish country mansion, dwells in the shadowy world of remembered pain and loneliness. McGreevy, the terrorist, reintroduces the possibility of compassion and tenderness, but there is an inevitably violent conclusion to their understanding as the police net closes. With extraordinary skill and empathy, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The country girls trilogy and epilogue more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist When Kate encounters trouble at home she goes to live with her girlfriend from school, Baba Brennan. Dismissed from their school, they travel to Dublin, where they each find lovers, and dance, and party. Baba contracts tuberculosis; Kate's lover leaves her for his own wife; Baba recovers; and Kate is forced home again. When the two friends meet ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Country Girls more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist When Kate encounters trouble at home she goes to live with her girlfriend from school, Baba Brennan. Dismissed from their school, they travel to Dublin, where they each find lovers, and dance, and party. Baba contracts tuberculosis; Kate's lover leaves her for his own wife; Baba recovers; and Kate is forced home again. When the two friends meet ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist From one of our greatest novelists comes this luminous portrait of the world's first literary rock star. see all copies from $11.08! new only from $14.29! \| SVS
5	Down by the River more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist DOWN BY THE RIVER begins, deceptively, in an idyllic rural setting somewhere in Ireland. By the end, its consequences have addressed and divided the political and judicial fabric of the nation. A crime of passion results in an emotional battlefield for one and all, with opposing factions taking militant sides. In the centre, a young girl ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist A collection of over 10 years of Edna O'Brien's short stories, including the entire volume of RETURNING, her 1981 collection that was published only in Great Britain, and four additional stories which appeared in The New Yorker between 1979 and 1981. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Mother Ireland more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist An autobiographical tapestry; recollections of an Irish childhood linked to an account of a journey there today, interwoven with fragments of Irish mythology, history and hearsay. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Wild Decembers more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist When a young man arrives from Australia to claim his inheritance, he changes a small Irish town for ever. Joseph Brennan sees Michael Bugler, the returned exile, as a threat. And for Breege, Joseph's younger sister, Bugler is an irresistible stranger to whose charms she must not succumb for fear of betraying her brother. A love-hate story on many ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Light of Evening more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist With its loving evocation of the Irish landscape, its cinematic portrait of New York in the 1920s as seen through the eyes of an immigrant, and its central mother-daughter relationship, "The Light of Evening" is certain to bring this daring writer her widest audience yet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	James Joyce more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist Edna O'Brien's life of Joyce (which she distinguishes from a "biography") emphasizes his exile, his marriage, and the magic of his language. A lifelong admirer of Joyce and his work, O'Brien has written an accessible and informative study of the writer from his rebellious youth in Dublin to his eccentric, alcoholic, and distinguished old age. A ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	In the Forest more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist Based on a true story, this novel is about a young man who kills--a lifelong psychopath who stuns his small Irish town with his crimes. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Lonely Girl more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist This second novel in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls trilogy continues the story of Kate and Baba out of childhood and into adulthood, as they head for the city (Dublin) and test themselves against a wider world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	Girls in their married bliss more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist This third volume in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls trilogy finds Kate and Baba in Dublin, determined to have lives of excitement and love. The roads they finally pursue are a surprise to them both as they grow up and their lives diverge. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Girl with green eyes more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist The comic sequel to "The Country Girls", in which Caithleen Brady finds romance in Dublin - classy romance with the second Mr Gentleman. The story of Caithleen and Baba continues in "Girls in Their Married Bliss". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.38! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	A Pagan Place more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist In a diary-like stream of image, impression, expression and experience, this book catalogues the mundane agony of the poor Irish child confronted at every turn with abundant opportunities for a sensational, scandalous and steadfast descent into eternal fire and damnation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Night more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist A narrative recollection told in the course of one night by Mary Hooligan, who is haunted by the image of her mother in a house where she is house-sitting. Mary tells of her past--her mother and childhood in rural Ireland; the men and women she sought for companionship and sex; her dead marriage and increasing distance from her son. When day ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Virginia: A Play more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist A play about Virginia Woolf and her relationships with her husband, Leonard Woolf, and her lover, Vita Sackville-West. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.30! \| first editions \| SVS
18	August is a wicked month more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist Separated from her husband, Ellen finds herself living alone in a city she dislikes - a place that denies her past and offers no hope for her future. Determined to change her life, she decides to go south in search of sun and companionship. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	The love object more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist Love and its objects are the common elements in these eight stories: the nervous love of a country mother for her sophisticated, town-living daughter, the adoration of a mistress for her married lover and less orthodox affairs between women and their illusions. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	Lantern Slides: Short Stories more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist A new collection of short stories. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $14.87! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The High Roadrown more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist This 1988 novel--O'Brien's first in 11 years--is one of her more lush, romantic tales, about love lost and found again. The narrator is a passionate woman named Anna who flees to an exotically idealized Spanish island to heal herself after a tormenting love affair. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	Tales for the Telling: Irish Folk & Fairy Stories more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist Features giants and leprechauns, heroes and princesses. Stories of love and high deeds which have been passed from generation to generation are now presented together in this book of Irish tales. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Triptych and Iphigenia: Two Plays more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist With searing acuity, renowned Irish novelist Edna O'Brien presents three women--a mistress, wife, and daughter--who expose their passions for the same man and confront the ways that love can simultaneously liberate and entrap. This lyrical and captivating drama weaves together their stories to construct the portrait of a man through their eyes. ... see all copies from $2.36! new only from $2.36! \| SVS
24	A Rose in the Heart more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
25	I Hardly Knew You more books like this by Edna O'Brien add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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