A fanatic heart: selected stories - edna o'brien

In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna OBriens A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a womans experience.

Her stories portray a young Irish girls 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 OBriens voice--wondrous, despairing, moving--examining passionate subjects that lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a womans heart.