Maeve Brennan

• 1974
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• Nov-1997
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The twentyâ€"one stories collected here -- the very best stories of one of The New Yorker's most celebrated writers -- trace the patterns of love within three Dublin families. Love between husband and wife, which begins in courtship and laughter, los...

• Nov-1998
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From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" department under the pen name "The Longâ€"Winded Lady." Her unforgettable sketches -- prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Ti...

• Apr-2001
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Reading Maeve Brennan is like watching a master jeweler construct a ticking watch from an array of tiny, inanimate parts. -Linda Barrett Osborne, New York Times Book ReviewSo good that I kept putting the book down to savor a description or perfect ph...

• Nov-2001
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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 twentiethâ€"century classic -- one of the best Irish writers of stories since Joyce.Now, unexpectedly, Brennan's oeuvre is immeasurably dee...