Country Girl
eBook - ePub

Country Girl

'There's no-one like Edna O'Brien' (Anne Enright)

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eBook - ePub

Country Girl

'There's no-one like Edna O'Brien' (Anne Enright)

About this book

The iconic memoir from the beloved Irish author of the legendary The Country Girls trilogy.

'Get ready to applaud, ladies and gentlemen, because there is no one like her.' Anne Enright
'One of the last great lights of the golden age of Irish literature.' Eimear McBride
'Glittering energy.' Colm Tóibín

I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter ...

Born in Ireland in 1930 and driven into exile after publication of her controversial first novel, The Country Girls, was burned in public, Edna O'Brien is now hailed as one of the most majestic writers of her era - and Country Girl is her fabulous memoir.

Born in rural Ireland, O'Brien weaves the tale of her life from convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, moving on to the wild parties of 1960s bohemian in London, encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans, love and unrequited love, and glamorous trips to America as a celebrity writer.

Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have forged a legendary author. O'Brien recasts her life with the imaginative alchemy of a poet, and the result is a memoir of sparkling wisdom and honesty.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780571270941
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue
  8. Part One
  9. Part Two
  10. Part Three
  11. Part Four
  12. Acknowledgements
  13. Permissions
  14. Illustrations
  15. About the Author
  16. By the Same Author
  17. New from Edna O’Brien
  18. Extract from Girl
  19. Copyright