Description
Apart from love being Love
Love is...
Affection, charity, interest,
It is also
Unshared affection, a love of one in absence, a love of the unseen and the love of the little jug.
The Irish approach to love is a many-splendoured and ripened refinement of the senses, which includes the barbed cosiness of friendship, the fleetingness of sex and the drama of woe.
Edna O'Brien reflects the variety and fertility of love and the Irish in her selection of poems, letters, plays and story excerpts. J. M. Synge, Kitty O'Shea, Sean O'Faolain, Samuel Beckett, James Stephens and the schoolgirl combine with others to make up a magical elixir for the reader to sup.
ISBN:9780140049824 
