O'FAOLAIN, SEAN (JOHN FRANCIS WHELAN ) — Foreign Affairs, and Other Stories

Boston, MA: Atlantic / Little Brown, 1976. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316632937. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light fading to the very ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, but has toning to the spine, edges and flap joints. "Over the course of a long publishing career, Ó Faoláin wrote eight volumes of short stories, the first of which, Midsummer Night Madness, appeared in 1932; his last volume, Foreign Affairs, was published over forty years later, in 1976. O’Faoláin also wrote four novels, three travel books, six biographies, a play, a memoir, a history book, and a so-called “character study. ” He produced critical studies of the novel and the short-story form, introduced texts of historical and literary merit, and contributed scores of articles, reviews, and uncollected stories to periodicals in Ireland, Britain, and America. Most famously, he cofounded and edited the influential journal The Bell from 1940 to 1946. Under O’Faoláin’s editorship, The Bell participated in many key debates of the day; it also provided a crucial outlet for established and emerging writers during the lean war years. A recurring thread in Ó Faoláin’s work is the idea that national identities are historically produced and culturally hybrid; an additional thesis is that Irish history should be conceived in international terms, and that it should be read, in particular, in the context of social and intellectual developments across Europe. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .