The Love Object: Selected Stories Audiobook

Quotes

• “Edna O’Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.”

  — Alice Munro, New York Times bestselling author

• “Majestic, heart-crossed tales about women…marked by their modern sensibilities and indomitable spirits.”

  — Elle

• “Tales that gleam like rare artifacts.”

  — Vogue

• “When a writer as gifted as O’Brien memorializes a vanishing world, we experience not only the ‘lost landscape’ but the richly ambivalent emotions it has evoked.”

  — Times Literary Supplement (London)

• “O’Brien gorgeously explores the complexities of her characters and the land that engendered them.”

  — More magazine

• “An intensely enjoyable book…the selected stories of one of the major writers of our era.”

  — Irish Times

• Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.

  — Alice Munro

• One great virtue of Edna O'Brien's writing is the sensation it gives of a world made new by language.

  — Seamus Heaney

• The sensibility is on two levels and shuttles back and forth, combining the innocence of childhood with the scars of maturity.

  — Philip Roth

• There is no living Irish writer who compares in terms of style, stamina, depth, or meaning.

  — Colum McCann

• When a writer as gifted as O'Brien memorializes a vanishing world, we experience not only the 'lost landscape' but the richly ambivalent emotions it has evoked.

  — Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement

• Every one of the stories included is a shining example of a master at work.

  — Lucy Scholes, Observer

• As well as being an intensely enjoyable book, it is a very important publication in the history of Irish literature: the selected stories of one of the major writers of our era.

  — Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Irish Times