Country Girl - Paperback
by Edna O'Brien
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Availability:In StockContributor:Edna O'BrienSeries:Back Bay Readers' PickPublish date:2014-05-06Pages:384
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316122719ISBN-10:316122718UPC:9780316122719Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Literary Figures, WomenSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCNEXDXR4T
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316122719ISBN-10:316122718UPC:9780316122719Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Literary Figures, WomenSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCNEXDXR4T
Edna O'Brien is the author of The Country Girls trilogy, The Light of Evening, The Love Object, and many other acclaimed books. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, O'Brien has lived in London for many years.
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