Collected here together for the first time in one beauitful volume, are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like A Scandalous Woman and Saints and Sinners; storie
The Love Object
β Scribed by O'Brien, Edna
- Book ID
- 108054469
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 190 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780224613576
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β¦ Synopsis
Love and its objects are the common elements in these eight stories: the nervous love of a country mother for her sophisticated, town-living daughter, the adoration of a mistress for her married lover and less orthodox affairs between women and their illusions.
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Love and its objects are the common elements in these eight stories: the nervous love of a country mother for her sophisticated, town-living daughter, the adoration of a mistress for her married lover and less orthodox affairs between women and their illusions.
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