{"product_id":"the-rose-garden-short-stories-paperback","title":"The Rose Garden: Short Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaeve Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA literary event--twenty short stories spanning Dublin and New York City--from the acclaimed \"Long-Winded Lady\" of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, Maeve Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eThe Springs of Affection\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1997, the poet Eamon Grennan called it a classic, a book that placed Maeve Brennan among the best Irish short-story writers since Joyce.\u003ci\u003e The Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the rest of her short fiction, some of it set in her native Dublin--a city, like Joyce's, of paralyzed souls and unexpressed love--but most of it in and around her adopted Manhattan, which she once called \"the capsized city--half-capsized, anyway, with the inhabitants hanging on, most of them still able to laugh as they cling to the island that is their life's predicament.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe riches here are many, but the collection's centerpiece is a suite of satirical scenes from suburban life, stories a little meaner than Cheever's, and wittier than Updike's (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). Some of the stories are quietly tender, some ferociously satirical, some unique in their chilly emotional weather; all are Maeve Brennan at her incomparable best.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAEVE BRENNAN \u003c\/b\u003eleft Ireland for America in 1934, when she was seventeen. In 1949, she joined the staff of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, to which she contributed reviews, essays, and short stories. Her acclaimed works \u003ci\u003eThe Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Springs of Affection\u003c\/i\u003e are also available from Counterpoint. Maeve Brennan died in 1993 at the age of seventy-six.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.02 x 5.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53477085643059,"sku":"9781582431192","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/NBnEW7DgQc9781582431192.webp?v=1781619072","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rose-garden-short-stories-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}