O'Brien, Edna, foreword by Philip Roth, — A Fanatic Heart: selected stories.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1984). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Set either in villages or countryside of western Ireland where she grew up or in London where she has lived for over 25 years,. these 29 stories detail relationships, sexual intimacy or social alienation. Roth writes their sensibility "is on two levels.combining the innocence of childhood with the scars of maturity. It is what gives these stories their wounded vigor." Edges of DJ browned & sl wear.