Mary Gordon

I thought that ours indeed was a land of shame, a land of murder, a land of strange, throttled, sacrificial women," says the narrator of Edna O'Brien's story, "A Scandalous Woman." Of Irish murder and Irish shame we have heard much, but the news has been in the mouths of men. Edna O'Brien tells the Trish woman's inside story. She has — as only the finest writers can created a … [Read more...] about Edna O’Brien: A Fanatic Heart