Product Details

• Published on: 2001-04-24
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 307 pages

Customer Reviews

a beautiful read
Maeve Brennan's writing, although increasingly difficult to find, is beautiful, precise, enjoyable, knock-about, sly, funny, sad, and uplifting. Yes, really, it is ALL those things! These are short stories set in her adopted New York or in Dublin, where she grew up and lived until she was 18. Brennan was an accomplished writer who can easily match up to other excellent short story writers such as Mansfield. Human failing & fraility through love, heart-ache, insecurity, and vanity puncture the egos of many of the people who populate these pages. Many of the characters recur in more than one story. Amongst the most loving and delightful are the tales of Bluebell the labrador, who suffers city life whilst waiting anxiously to go back to the seaside. You can almost smell the ocean in Brennan's evocation of life at the beach. I found myself rationing a certain number of pages a night so that I wouldn't finish the book... unfortunately I did anyway.