My Oedipus complex and other stories / Frank O'Connor ; with an introduction by Julian Barnes.
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TextSeries: Penguin modern classicsPublication details: London : Penguin, 2005.Description: xiv, 361 p. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0141187875 (pbk.)
- 9780141187877 (pbk.)
- 823.912 OCO
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| 823 TOB The Blackwater lightship / | 823.8 WIL The complete short stories / | 823.912 OBR Faithful companions: collected essays celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Kate O'Brien weekend / | 823.912 OCO My Oedipus complex and other stories / | 823.914 That they may face the rising sun / | 823.914 DEA Reading in the dark / | 823.914 DOY A star called Henry / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Julian Barnes's new selection of stories by Frank O'Connor displays to the fullest his versatility, humour and insight in tales about childhood and marriage, sex and religion, war and old age. Here, O'Connor depicts young boys convinced of their own genius or locked in hilarious rivalry with their fathers, and IRA soldiers who must make heartbreaking decisions in the midst of a baffling war. In other tales an old woman threatens to haunt her son if he fails to bury her at her old home, while a scandal threatens to ignite when a floral wreath is sent anonymously to a priest's funeral. In these beautiful evocations of ordinary life - both comic and tragic - O'Connor portrays small moments that take us to the psychological truth at the hart of his characters.
This selection published in Penguin Books, 2005--T.p. verso.
In the title story of this collection, a child\'s jealousy of his place in his mother\'s life erupts when his father comes home from World War II, not to subside until a new baby arrives placing his father and him in the same position.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
An Irish master of the short story, Frank O'Connor was born Michael O'Donovan in Cork. It is not surprising to learn in the first part of his autobiography, An Only Child (1961), that he took his adored mother's name. O'Connor's absorbing interest was the literary treasury of Ireland. He labored tirelessly over masterful translations of ancient Gaelic works. O'Connor wrote the well-received A Short History of Irish Literature: A Backward Look and edited an anthology of prose and poetry, A Book of Ireland (1959), which contains some of his own translations from the Gaelic. His Shakespeare's Progress (1960) is an appraisal of the bard. In The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1963), he examines the work of those he considers the great short story writers of the past. The subjects of his own stories are the middle and lower-middle classes of his beloved Ireland. In his last years, O'Connor lived mostly in the United States, where he taught at Harvard and Northwestern universities. He passed away in 1966.The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award which is named in his honor because he devoted much of his work to this writing form began in 2005. It is an international literary award presented for the best short story collection. The prize amount is $25,000 (as of 2012). Each year, roughly sixty books are longlisted, with either four or six books shortlisted, the final decision is made by three judges. In 2014 the winner was Collin Barrett for his work Young Skins.
(Bowker Author Biography)