A collection of twenty-one stories centering three Irish families from The New Yorker’s acclaimed “Long-Winded Lady,” Maeve BrennanThe stories collected here trace the patterns of love within three Dublin families. Love between husband and wife...
“Maeve Brennan . . . helped put New York back into The New Yorker, and has written about the city of the sixties with both honesty and affection . . . She is constantly alert, sharp-eyed as a sparrow for the crumbs of human event, the overheard and...
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...
From celebrated Irish writer Maeve Brennan, The New Yorker’s “Long-Winded Lady,” comes The Visitor -- the earliest of all of her known writings -- that tells the haunting story of a young woman who returns to her grandmother's home only to face...