Faber & Faber

Saints and Sinners: Edna O'Brien

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Synopsis:

A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed; an Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold, an outside both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land.

A collection characterised by all of Edna O'Brien's trademark lyricism, powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions.

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• Audio snippet: Edna O'Brien on 'Saints and Sinners'
• Audio snippet: An Extract from 'Shovel Kings'
• Audio snippet: An Extract from 'My Two Mothers'

Tags:

Categorised as:

Fiction

Sub-categories:

Short Stories

Places:

Ireland; London; Manhattan

Awards & Prizes:

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award - Winner 2011