Night: A Novel

by Edna O'Brien

Overview

Edna O'Brien's classic novel NIGHT takes us through one long, sleepless night with Mary Hooligan. From the center of her bed, "a four poster no less," Mary recalls her fertile past, from her childhood in the Irish countryside to the love affairs she has confronted since leaving for English shores. Wistful, wanton, this erotic reverie shows O'Brien to be one of the foremost heirs to modernism. "Very few writers use language as richly and sensuously . . . There are passages here worthy of Joyce" (Library Journal).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780618126897
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/14/2001
Edition description:	1ST MARINE
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	327,078
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

EDNA O’BRIEN is the author of eighteen works of fiction, including the New York Times Notable Books and Book Sense picks Wild Decembers and In the Forest, and Lantern Slides, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2002 she won the National Medal for Fiction from the National Arts Club. An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, O’Brien was born and grew up in Ireland and has lived in London for many years.

Editorial Reviews

The most gifted woman now writing fiction in English.

Philip Roth

I look to everything Miss O'Brien writes with an eager expectation. —Evening Standard

Claire Tomalin

What amazes in book after book is O'Brien's hypnotically seductive story-telling, the power of her mesmerizing language, and her vision into the dark reaches of the human heart.

Miami Herald