Volume 32, Number 1 · January 31, 1985

Women Beware Women

By Adam Mars-Jones
A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
by Edna O'Brien

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 461 pp., $17.95

Hotel du Lac
by Anita Brookner

Pantheon, 184 pp., $13.95

A Fanatic Heart is a collection drawn from over a decade of Edna O'Brien's career as a writer of short stories; it prints complete her 1981 volume Returning, only now published in the United States, as well as a 'Quartet' of uncollected stories which appeared in The New Yorker between 1979 and 1981.



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