{"product_id":"the-visitor-paperback","title":"The Visitor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaeve Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe current revival of the work of Maeve Brennan, who died in obscurity in 1993, has won her a reputation as a twentieth-century classic--one of the best Irish writers of stories since Joyce. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, unexpectedly, Brennan's oeuvre is immeasurably deepened and broadened by a miraculous literary discovery--a short novel written in the mid-1940s, but till now unknown and unpublished. Recently found in a university archive, it is a story of Dublin and of the unkind, ungenerous, emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temper. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e is the haunting tale of Anastasia King, who, at the age of twenty-two, returns to her grandmother's house--the very house where she grew up--after six long years away. She has been in Paris, comforting her disgraced and dying mother, the runaway from a disastrous marriage to Anastasia's late father, the grandmother's only son. \"It's a pity she sent for you.\" the grandmother says, smiling with anger. \"And a pity you went after her. It broke your father's heart.\"Anastasia pays dearly for the choice she made, a choice that now costs her her own strong sense of family and makes her an exile--a visitor--in the place she once called home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald, writing of Brennan's story \"The Springs of Affection,\" said that it carries an \"electric charge of resentment and quiet satisfaction in revenge that chills you right through.\" The same can be said of the \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e, Maeve Brennan's \"lost\" novel--the early work of an incomparable master.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaeve Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e left Ireland for American 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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 6.96 x 4.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693258313791,"sku":"9781582431611","price":15.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1d501fd123d93ba2c8163cc48e0a89de.webp?v=1764998326","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-visitor-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}