The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin - Softcover

Brennan, Maeve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395937590 ISBN 13: 9780395937594

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2000

Synopsis

These masterly stories trace the patterns of love in three middle-class Dublin families, patterns as intricate and various as Irish lace. "Maeve Brennan's book is full of small miracles," wrote the New York Times Book Review. "The magnificent title story is wide-ranging, savage, poignant, and should bring [Brennan] back to the table of modern fiction, where her place has been empty too long."

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0395937590
• ISBN 13: 9780395937594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368