{"product_id":"the-visitor-isbn-9781582431611","title":"The Visitor","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom celebrated Irish writer Maeve Brennan, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e’s “Long-Winded Lady,” comes \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e—the earliest of all of her known writings—that tells the haunting story of a young woman who returns to her grandmother's home only to face the painful consequences of long-buried family secrets \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAnastasia King returns to her grandmother's house in Dublin—the very house where she grew up—after six long years away. She has been in Paris, comforting her disgraced and dying mother, the runaway from a disastrous marriage to Anastasia's late father, her grandmother's only son. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It's a pity she sent for you,” the grandmother says, smiling with anger. “And a pity you went after her. It broke your father's heart.” Anastasia pays dearly for the choice she made, a choice that now costs her her own strong sense of family and makes her an exile—a visitor—in the place she once called home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFound unexpectedly in a university archive, this previously unpublished novella from the 1940s is a story of Dublin and of the unkind, ungenerous, emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temper. With its sharp exploration of emotional exile and familial resentment, \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e deepens Brennan’s legacy as a master of psychological tension and quiet, devastating drama.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Grim and measured, sure of its emotional power, this is certainly evidence of Brennan’s great gift.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e “is the ideal place for one to begin with [Brennan’s] work, for not only does it show where she set out from but it also explores so much of her later fictional world in small compass. The completeness of vision of \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e, and the ease with which the novella takes its place among her finest stories, is astonishing. This ferocious tale of love longed for, of love perverted and denied, is one of her finest achievements.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\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\u003eare also available from Counterpoint. Maeve Brennan died in 1993 at the age of seventy–six.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300469952741,"sku":"NP9781582431611","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582431611.jpg?v=1767742095","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-visitor-isbn-9781582431611","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}