Saints and Sinners is a short story collection by Edna O'Brien. Faber and Faber published it in 2011.
The collection includes the O'Brien story "Sinners" in which a lonely widow running an isolated rural bed and breakfast overhears the sexual antics of a man, woman and teenage girl who on arrival claim to be couple and daughter - "Then came the exclamations, the three pitches of sound so different -- the woman's loud and gloating, the girl's, helpless, as if she were almost crying, and the man, like a jackass down the woods with his lady loves."[1]
Saints and Sinners won the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.[2]
Reception
editSaints and Sinners was generally well-received. Culture Critic gave it an aggregated critic score of 90 percent based on an accumulation of British press reviews. [3]
References
edit- ^ Shine Thompson, Mary (5 February 2011). "Review: Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien". Irish Independent. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
- ^ "Edna O'Brien wins Frank O'Connor Award". Irish Examiner. 18 September 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ "Edna O'Brien - Saints and Sinners". Culture Critic. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
External links
edit- Saints and Sinners, By Edna O'Brien, Arifa Akbar, 11 February 2011[dead link]
- Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien – review, Sylvia Brownrigg, The Guardian, 5 March 2011
- A Night for Saints and Sinners: An evening with Edna O'Brien at NYU's Glucksman Ireland House, Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence, Irish America magazine, 14 July 2011
 | This article about a collection of short stories published in the 2010s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |