{"product_id":"the-visitor-paperback","title":"The Visitor - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaeve Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFound unexpectedly in a university archive, this previously unpublished novella from the 1940s is a story of Dublin and of the unkind, ungenerous, emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temper.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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 6.96 x 4.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53463371153715,"sku":"9781582431611","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/Pa6OlHXQg99781582431611.webp?v=1781618783","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/the-visitor-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}