Saints and Sinners (short story collection)

First edition

Saints and Sinners is a short story collection by Edna O'Brien. Faber and Faber published it in 2011.

The collection includes the O'Brien story "Sinners" in which a lonely widow running an isolated rural bed and breakfast overhears the sexual antics of a man, woman and teenage girl who on arrival claim to be couple and daughter - "Then came the exclamations, the three pitches of sound so different -- the woman's loud and gloating, the girl's, helpless, as if she were almost crying, and the man, like a jackass down the woods with his lady loves."^[1]

Saints and Sinners won the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.^[2]

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• Saints and Sinners, By Edna O'Brien, Arifa Akbar, 11 February 2011^{[dead link]}
• Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien – review, Sylvia Brownrigg, The Guardian, 5 March 2011
• A Night for Saints and Sinners: An evening with Edna O'Brien at NYU's Glucksman Ireland House, Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence, Irish America magazine, 14 July 2011

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