Full name: The Rose Garden: Short Stories

Author: Maeve Brennan Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781582431192 1582431191

Reading Maeve Brennan is like watching a master jeweler construct a ticking watch from an array of tiny, inanimate parts. -Linda Barrett Osborne, New York Times Book ReviewSo good that I kept putting the book down to savor a description or perfect phrase, to hug myself with malicious joy, and to put off the evil hour when the stories would be done. -Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday GlobeWhen The Springs of Affection was published in 1997, the poet Eamon Grennan called it a classic, a book that placed Maeve Brennan among the best Irish short-story writers since Joyce. The Rose Garden gathers the rest of her short fiction, some of it set in her native Dublin but most of it in and around her adopted Manhattan. The riches here are many, but the collection's centerpiece is a suite of satirical scenes from suburban life, stories a little meaner than Cheever's, and wittier than Updike's (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Similar books: The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin The Collected Stories by John McGahern Charity by Mark Richard A Fanatic Heart by Edna O'Brien At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel by Dermot Bolger A Bit on the Side by William Trevor Walking the Dog by Bernard MacLaverty Here We Are in Paradise by Tony Earley Where You'll Find Me by Ann Beattie Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain The Deportees by Roddy Doyle The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez