The Springs of Affection - Softcover

Brennan, Maeve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906539545 ISBN 13: 9781906539542

Publisher: Stinging Fly Press, 2016

Synopsis

The twenty-one stories collected here the very best stories of one of The New Yorker’s most celebrated writers trace the patterns of love within three Dublin families. Love between husband and wife, which begins in courtship and laughter, loses all power of expression and then vanishes forever. The natural love of sister for brother and of mother for son is twisted into the rage to possess. And love that gives rise to the rituals of family life those ordinary customs that are the only true realities most of us ever know” grows solid as rock that will never give way.

In his introduction, William Maxwell, who was for twenty years Maeve Brennan’s editor, writes of the special quality of her work, and especially of the title story, which he places among the great short fiction of the twentieth century.

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Review

"Wide-ranging, savage, poignant... full of small miracles."

"Remarkable ... Fiction of the highest order, controlled, wise, and fearless. Not many writers go this deep or far from home."

About the Author

Maeve Brennan came to America from Ireland in 1934, when she was seventeen. From 1949 through the mid-1970s, she was on the staff of The New Yorker, where she made memorable contributions to "The Talk of the Town" under the pen name "The Long-Winded Lady." She died in New York in 1993.

William Maxwell teaches finance at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He has held professorships at the University of Arizona, Texas Tech, and Georgetown and has written numerous articles for academic journals. Maxwell his coauthor of "High-Yield Bonds."
Mark Shenkman is President and Chief Investment Officer of Shenkman Capital Management, one of the world's largest high-yield money management firms. He has held executive-level positions focusing on the fixed income market at First Investors Asset Management, Lehman Brothers, and Fidelity. Shenkman is co-author of High-Yield Bonds.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stinging Fly Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1906539545
• ISBN 13: 9781906539542
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 349