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The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin ReviewMaeve Brennan's stories--which I had never heard of before reading this collection-- take their place beside the work of William Trevor as one of the finest probings of middle-class Irish life in the past fifty years. Her comic and terrible accounts of the ordinary lives of people on the edge of distresses for which they have no name are mesmerising in their authenticity of detail. Her crystal-clear memory of and deeply complicated feeling for the everyday abrasions and sudden rushes of light of ordinary life in a Dublin suburb or an Irish provincial town are invariably compelling. And she manages to draw these local people and their surroundings into a drama of universal meanings: her theme is the sheer weight of living, the fragility of the heart's joy, and the profound, mostly speechless realm of sadness where her men and women have to live. Yet, for all the darkness she manages to confront, the writing is a pleasure always: articulate, witty, wise, its lucid, clean, unfussy but surprising sentences are a continuous source of delight and illumination. This is a collection that deserves to take its place beside the stories of Mary Lavin, whose quiet but profound psychological insights (especially into the nature of women) are matched by Brennan's more edgy, fraught, and acerbic understanding. Such mature work is a rarity. For anyone interested in modern and contemporary Irish literature, as well as anyone interested in the short story, the brilliant sketch, or simply in good writing, I believe Maeve Brennan would be--as she has been for me--a discovery to treasure.The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin Overview

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