The Visitor by Maeve Brennan

The Visitor by Maeve Brennan

Anastasia returns to her grandmother's house in Dublin after six years away. She has been in Paris comforting her dying mother, who ran away from Anastasia's late father. This is a story of Dublin and the unreachable side of the Irish temperament.

An astonishing miniature masterpiece

-- Nuala O'Faolain

a new-found masterpiece…Only in the work of Emily Dickinson can the same ferocious vision – of love, pain, transgression and death – and economy of expression be found.

* The Guardian *

This early work by the respected writer never flinches from its exploration of the destructive power of family pride and anger. Brennan’s restrained but touching evocation of a young woman whose heart has been wrung dry and who thereafter is condemned to permanent exile is permeated with outrage and sorrow.

* Publishers Weekly *

She is constantly alert, sharp-eyed as a sparrow for the crumbs of human event, the overheard and the glimpsed and the guessed-at.

-- John Updike

Hope, generosity and sexual passion glitter like small jewels in Maeve Brennan’s devastating story of a chilly, tight-lipped Dublin. A perfect introduction to her work.

-- Angela Bourke

Maeve Brennan (1917-1993) was an Irish writer and a journalist. In 1934 she moved to the USA, where she worked in The New Yorker writing sketches, short stories, essays, fashion notes. In the 1950s and 1960s she was well-known in the USA, but not in Ireland, though Dublin was a frequent setting of her short stories. Her published works include The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker (1969), In and Out of Never-Never Land (1969) and Christmas Eve (1974). Her novella The Visitor written in 1940s was discovered and published only in 2000.

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ISBN 13	9781905494217
ISBN 10	1905494211
Title	The Visitor
Author	Maeve Brennan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New Island Books
Year published	2006-03-01
Number of pages	120
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