# The Visitor

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- Authors: [Maeve Brennan](https://www.bookquiver.com/maeve-brennan)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2002-04-08

## Description

‘ The Visitor is the work of a sure hand… and Brennan’s prose is terse and exquisitely precise throughout… Only in the work of Emily Dickinson can the same ferocious vision – of love, pain, transgression and death – and economy of expression be found.’ Guardian The Visitor tells the haunting tale of Anastasia King, who, at the age of twenty-two, returns to her grandmother’s house in Ireland – the very house where she grew up – after six long years away. An atmospheric story of Dublin, it is also a dissection of the unkind, ungenerous, emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temperament. Recently rediscovered in a university archive, The Visitor was written in the mid-1940s but has never been published until now. Long championed by authors from Nuala O’Faolain and Clare Messud to John Updike, this miraculous literary discovery confirms Brennan’s status as a master of the novella and one of the best storytellers since Joyce. ‘An astonishing miniature masterpiece, except there is nothing miniature about the forces at work in a story as violent underneath as it is demure on the surface … The ferocity of her vision of femininity is hers alone. ‘ -Nuala O’Faolain

## Editions

### The Visitor

- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-19-0380-977-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-04-08
- Language: en_GB

### The Visitor

- Publisher: counterpoint
- ISBN: 978-15-8243-161-1
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2001-10-15
- Language: en_US