The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien (Signed First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Faber & Faber, 2013
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Cameron Books, Ramsgate, Kent, United KingdomCameron Books
AbeBooks seller since August 11, 2026
Condition: Used - Good
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First edition, first printing of The Love Object: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien, published by Faber and Faber in 2013. Signed by Edna O'Brien in blue ink on the title page. Paperback original. Copyright page shows a full number line ending in "1", confirming a first printing. Good condition overall. Covers show handling wear with a noticeable tear/chip to the lower front corner, light creasing, rubbing and minor edge wear. Internally clean and complete with no writing noted other than the author's signature. Binding remains sound. A signed first printing by one of the most important Irish writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Please refer to the photographs for a detailed view of condition.
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- Title
- The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- Edna O'Brien
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 057127028X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571270286
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 852 grams
- Dimensions
- 16.1 centimeters width by 24 centimeters height by 4.4 centimeters depth
Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like A Scandalous Woman and Saints and Sinners; stories such as 'Shovel Kings', 'Irish Revel', 'Lantern Slides' and 'Paradise' that have bewitched generation after generation.
Referred to in the New York Review of Books by Harold Bloom as 'the short story master', Edna O'Brien's stories are a cumulative portrait of a nation, seen from within and without. Here you will find stories about families, feuds, love and land; enchantment, disenchantment, and throughout, the manifold bonds of love. Here are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and always the shimmering, potent prose.
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