{"product_id":"the-visitor-maeve-brennan-9781582431611","title":"The Visitor","description":"The current revival of the work of Maeve Brennan, who died in obscurity in 1993, has won her a reputation as a twentieth-century classic--one of the best Irish writers of stories since Joyce. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, unexpectedly, Brennan's oeuvre is immeasurably deepened and broadened by a miraculous literary discovery--a short novel written in the mid-1940s, but till now unknown and unpublished. Recently found in a university archive, it is a story of Dublin and of the unkind, ungenerous, emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temper. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e is the haunting tale of Anastasia King, who, at the age of twenty-two, returns to her grandmother's house--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, the grandmother's only son. \"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald, writing of Brennan's story \"The Springs of Affection,\" said that it carries an \"electric charge of resentment and quiet satisfaction in revenge that chills you right through.\" The same can be said of the \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e, Maeve Brennan's \"lost\" novel--the early work of an incomparable master.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maeve Brennan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1582431612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781582431611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.96h x 4.60w x 0.38d","brand":"Maeve Brennan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991631134975,"sku":"9781582431611","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e27c354b-72d3-4964-96ee-0cdfe81bcd62.jpg?v=1683311371","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-visitor-maeve-brennan-9781582431611","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}