“I never want to leave this house,” says Rose Derdon—one of the unhappily married women who populate Maeve Brennan’s stories—shortly after moving in. The house is 48 Cherryfield Avenue, Ranelagh, in ...
Few writers are as lucid and at the same time mysterious as Maeve Brennan. Her sentences are precise; they accumulate to create a hard brilliance. The beauty of these stories is immediately apparent, ...