Download or read book Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction written by Maureen O'Connor and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world's best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. This study considers the pioneering ways O'Brien represents women's experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work's long anticipation of movements such as #metoo.