Publisher's Synopsis
'Edna O’Brien has found a new voice, and a whole new range of characters... I would warmly recommend these stories, told so well that they could become classics.' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In Tales for the Telling you’ll meet giants and leprehauns, heroes and princesses.
Edna O’Brien’s collection of twelve quintessentially Irish stories of love and high deeds, which have been passed from generation to generation are retold in her distinctive narrative style, brimming with magic and myth, nonsense and naughtiness.
She accents the comic notes as the giant McConigle threatens to destroy the giant Finn, a titanic clash averted when Finn’s cunning wife Oonagh fools the challenger into believing her husband is twice his actual size and thrice stronger. There is a sweet and silly story about nasty fairies who force a young lad to help them kidnap a French princess, another about a brave man who vanquishes all his foes and never falters only to quake with fear when he falls in love, and many more treasures.
