by Edna O'Brien · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140031041
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«The Love Object» is the collection of eight stories by Edna O'Brien, published by Penguin in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Eight stories portraying women's lives marked by desire and disillusionment. In «Irish Revel», a young woman waits for love amid a hard life; in «The Rug», a woman becomes obsessed with a gift from no sender; in «The Love Object», a television presenter seeks emotional fulfillment in a relationship with a married man. Loneliness and emotional dependence unite the stories.
The work was originally published in 1968; this paperback edition from Penguin Books dates from 1975.
Recommended for readers of twentieth-century Irish fiction and of stories exploring female psychology and romantic relationships.
Josephine Edna O'Brien was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.
