Night. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972. First Edition. Pp 151. Brown cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly creased, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper.

The inscription is to Iain Hamilton who as Editorial Director at Hutchison, played a guiding role in Edna O’Brien’s early career.

A short, intense novel that unfolds as a single, sleepless night’s stream of consciousness from its narrator, Mary Hooligan. Critics have frequently compared Mary to Molly Bloom from James Joyce’s Ulysses, noting that O’Brien’s narrator is a more savage and weathered version of that famous character.

“It brings a new and fierce and deadly honesty to the expression of a woman’s sexual life.”–The Guardian