After six years away, living in Paris with her disgraced and dying mother, a runaway from a disastrous marriage to her father, twenty-two-year-old Anastasia King returns to her grandmother's house onl
Of all the incomparable stable of journalists who wrote for The New Yorker during its glory days in the Fifties and Sixties,” writesThe Independent, the most distinctive was Irish-born Maeve Brennan.”
Offers a collection of new short stories from the author of the critically acclaimed The Springs of Affection, several of which are set in the author's native Dublin or in Herbert's Retreat, a comfor
The twenty-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
