![]() ![]() It's also possible that I would fare better with a more easily skimmable print version of the book, or that I'm just not in the right mood for this type of story, but I am giving this a pass for now. Order The Little Red Chairs for £16.99 from the Telegraph Bookshop Advertisement. The writing/storytelling is good but I think it would benefit significantly from some editing/direction. Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs (Faber, £18.99) is out on October 29. The Little Red Chairs, her first novel in ten years, is classic O'Brien: terrible and beautiful, unsentimen The graphic nature of her subject matterthe violent, shameful, behind-closed-doors reality of Irish rural and religious lifehave shocked and scandalized since her fiction debut, The Country Girls in 1960. The main story seems to be the woman's using the war criminal's sexual "healing" and "other" services to get pregnant (after suffering 2 miscarriages with her husband), but there are also lots of side stories that seemingly go nowhere (or at least seem to wander off for hours before arriving back at a point contingent to the story). I listened to about 4 hours worth (over half the book), but wasn't compelled to continue. When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. ![]() Having some trouble getting into this, although I am impressed by the narrator's () great skill in providing the various voices, including the male characters-she also has a lovely Irish accent. 'Ten years on from her last novel, Edna OBrien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. ![]()
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