Books
by Edna O'Brien
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In The Forest |
A young man failed by the establishment throughout his life is free from prison and out for blood. It is when his path crosses that of Eily, a mother with a young son, that his madness and fury break through his last shred of sanity. What follows involves the local people, the police, Eily's friends and detractors in almost a farce in this incredibly dark and frightening book. I raced through it to the end.
(Julie Higgins - bwl 18 April 2003) |
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The Little Red Chairs |
A small Irish town is enthralled by a mysterious foreigner with his white beard, topknot ponytail, potions and healing hands. But Dr. Vlad is a lie, the fictional doppelgänger of the Butcher of Bosnia. This highly praised novel, written in that lyrical prose that is so peculiarly Irish, kept me turning the pages, hungry for more but perhaps because it is based on such recent history, I found it's Irish and London settings a distraction. Just too literal-minded, I suppose.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 81 Summer 2016) |
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