The Springs of Affection

First edition thus. Cr. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 358, [2 (blank)]. Quarter-bound saffron yellow cloth over teal green paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine; deckled fore-edge. Tan endpapers. Publisher's Note. Introduction by William Maxwell. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan with rear cover blurbs by Edna O'Brien, Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant.

With a singular exception, the twenty-one stories collected here, and set in the Ireland of Brennan's youth, were first published in The New Yorker, America's pre-eminent forum for serious journalism and fiction. The odd-one out, 'The Poor Men and Women,' was published in the April 1952 issue of Harper's Bazaar.

"Wonderful vignettes of a bygone Dublin, with a truth and freshness that makes them timeless." –Edna O'Brien