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- The current revival of the work of Maeve Brennan, who died in obscurity in 1993, has won her a reputation as a twentieth-century classic--one of the best Irish writers of stories since Joyce.
- About the Author: MAEVE BRENNAN left Ireland for America in 1934, when she was seventeen.
- 96 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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The current revival of the work of Maeve Brennan, who died in obscurity in 1993, has won her a reputation as a twentieth-century classic--one of the best Irish writers of stories since Joyce. Now, unexpectedly, Brennan's oeuvre is immeasurably deepened and broadened by a miraculous literary discovery--a short novel written in the mid-1940s, but till now unknown and unpublished. Recently found in a university archive, it is a story of Dublin and of the unkind, ungenerous, emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temper. The Visitor is the haunting tale of Anastasia King, who, at the age of twenty-two, returns to her grandmother's house--the very house where she grew up--after six long years away. She has been in Paris, comforting her disgraced and dying mother, the runaway from a disastrous marriage to Anastasia's late father, the grandmother's only son. "It's a pity she sent for you." the grandmother says, smiling with anger. "And a pity you went after her. It broke your father's heart."Anastasia pays dearly for the choice she made, a choice that now costs her her own strong sense of family and makes her an exile--a visitor--in the place she once called home. Penelope Fitzgerald, writing of Brennan's story "The Springs of Affection," said that it carries an "electric charge of resentment and quiet satisfaction in revenge that chills you right through." The same can be said of the The Visitor, Maeve Brennan's "lost" novel--the early work of an incomparable master.About the Author
MAEVE BRENNAN left Ireland for America in 1934, when she was seventeen. In 1949, she joined the staff of The New Yorker, to which she contributed reviews, essays, and short stories. Her acclaimed works The Rose Garden, The Visitor, and The Springs of Affection are also available from Counterpoint. Maeve Brennan died in 1993 at the age of seventy-six.Dimensions (Overall): 6.96 Inches (H) x 4.6 Inches (W) x .38 Inches (D)
Weight: .2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 96
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Format: Paperback
Author: Maeve Brennan
Language: English
Street Date: October 15, 2001
TCIN: 90811388
UPC: 9781582431611
Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-6358
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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