Edna O’Brien

Short story set in Ireland about a mentally disturbed boy who is sent to a reform school after his mother dies and he attempts to kill his father… He is …

Edna O’Brien on the labors of “Ulysses.”

Fiction, from 1990: “Somehow the party had begun to trigger in her a host of things, memory upon memory, like hands placed on top of one another in a childhood game.”

Narrator describes a visit to her uncle's house when she was nearly 9. For years she had been begging to go there, to spend a holiday with him & his …

Fiction, from 1982: “Mabel said that she had seen a thing or two, her eyes had been opened, but she would not say in what way.”

The narrator is a young girl living in a town in Ireland at the beginning of the story; at the end, she is married, with one small child. In the town are …

Fiction, from 1967: “That night in my bed he was both stranger and lover, which I used to think was the ideal bed partner.”

In her 46th year, Mrs. Farley, who cleaned houses in London, found a boyfriend. Both had dreary marriages, were nearly 46, & were keen gardeners. They took…