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...But it was yet another demonstration of the truism uttered by the sinister obliterator of memory, O’Brien, in George Orwell’s 1984, reminding Winston Smith that “who controls the past, controls the future...
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...O’Brien recounts the story with enormous verve....
...Saints and Sinners, by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£12.99, 250 pages More than 50 years after O’Brien’s debut novel, The Country Girls, her latest short story collection proves her powers of observation and...
...Its sophistication scored O’Brien a third Forward prize for best collection this year....
...DANTE’S INFERNO: A Free Verse Translation by Sean O’Brien Picador ₤15, 160 pages O’Brien offers a plain-speaking and highly readable blank verse translation without the hubris which leads other poets to...
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