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 husband and wife, which begins in courtship and laughter, loses all power of expression and then vanishes forever. Th[...]
To be a staff writer at "The New Yorker" during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most covetedand influentialseats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both in p[...]