{"product_id":"the-springs-of-affection-isbn-9781582435008","title":"The Springs of Affection","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of twenty-one stories centering three Irish families from \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e’s acclaimed “Long-Winded Lady,” Maeve Brennan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories collected here trace the patterns of love within three Dublin families. Love between husband and wife, which begins in courtship and laughter, loses all power of expression and then vanishes forever. The natural love of sister for brother and of mother for son is twisted into the rage to possess. And love that gives rise to the rituals of family life—those \"ordinary customs that are the only true realities most of us ever know\"—grows solid as rock that will never give way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction by William Maxwell, who was for twenty years Maeve Brennan's editor, \u003ci\u003eThe Springs of Affection\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Brennan to be one of the most innovative and important writers of the 20th century.“I have always counted the title story of this volume among my favorites for all time, but I had forgotten how pure and strong so many of Maeve Brennan’s other stories are. It is a great joy to me to have these all together.” —Alice Munro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brennan is, for a new generation of Irish women writers, a casualty of old wars not yet won. The prose holds her revived reputation very well, especially the Irish stories. These feel transparently modern, the way that \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e by Joyce feels modern. It is partly a question of restraint . . . Brennan remains precise, unyielding: something lovely and unbearable is happening on the page.\" —Anne Enright\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAEVE BRENNAN \u003c\/b\u003eleft Ireland for America 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.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304428818661,"sku":"NP9781582435008","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582435008.jpg?v=1767741635","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-springs-of-affection-isbn-9781582435008","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}