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The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan

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Joyce and Brennan - What's the Difference?

I'm struggling to think how at any time that wouldn't seem like very great, very original, very distinctive writing. And very unsentimental. He talked about Connor, but there's plenty of sentimentality in his stories, but not as trace of it ever in these stories of my Brennan's. I just wonder what's changed that makes us now able to see them more clearly? It doesn't matter if she's writing about 30s Dublin or 50s New York. The prose and the ideas and the themes are completely timeless. So I think that's what she does so well.

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