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Country Girl

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 346

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...

The Little Red Chairs

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 279

The legendary Edna O'Brien's tale of a mysterious stranger spellbinding an Irish village 'reminds you why you read books in the first place' ( Observer). 'The great Edna O'Brien has written her masterpiece.' Philip Roth 'Extraordinary . . . Courageous.' J.M. Coetzee 'Fierce and beautiful.' Anne Enright 'Exemplary.' Colm Tóibín ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' TOP 100 NOVELS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in a fatal attraction that leads to unimaginable consequences. 'Magnificent' ( Sunday Times) 'Beautiful' ( Financial Times) ' Enthralling' ( Times) 'Extraordinary' ( Independent) ' Astonishing' ( New Yorker)

Edna O'Brien

Autor: Grace Eckley

Número de Páginas: 96

Irish Revel

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 28

Girl

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 190

** Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 ** Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020 A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl once, but not any more . . . A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial? 'Astonishing.' New Statesman 'Raw and transfixing.' Observer 'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' Mail on Sunday 'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent 'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times 'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph By the author of The Country Girls.

Night

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 173

The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019. Edna O'Brien's haunting spectre of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorable characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts her (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind in a narrative voice of blistering, radical originality. This ebook features the first chapter of Edna O'Brien's stunning new novel, Girl, published by Faber in September 2019 and available to pre-order now.

The Rescue

Autor: Edna O'brien , Peter Stevenson

Número de Páginas: 44

Edna O'Brien

Autor: Kathryn Laing , Sinéad Mooney , Maureen O'connor

Número de Páginas: 276

As part of Pegasos, Kuunsankosken Kaupunginkirjasto of Finland presents a biographical sketch about the Irish writer Edna O'Brien (1932- ). O'Brien has written plays, children's books, essays, screenplays, and nonfiction about Ireland. Some of O'Brien's works include "Country Girls" (1960), "The Love Object" (1968), "Night" (1972), "Mother Ireland" (1976), and "A Fanatic Heart" (1984).

The Love Object

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 521

'O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' Alice Munro 'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like O'Brien.' Anne Enright 'Heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride 'A profound intelligence spurred on by a tangible, fizzing joy.' Megan Nolan 'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett 'A revolution.' John Banville 'Glittering energy.' Colm Tóibín Spanning five decades of writing, and winning the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, The Love Object collects the most luminous stories by Edna O'Brien that have bewitched generation after generation. Here you will find tales of families, feuds, enchantment, despair, and the manifold bonds of love. There are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; always crafted in shimmering prose.

The Light of Evening

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 333

Such is the wrath of the mothers, such is the cry of the mothers, such is the lamentation of the mothers. Ageing Dilly Macready lies in her hospital bed in Dublin, awaiting a final visit from her estranged daughter, Eleanora, an author who fled rural Ireland years before, after her sensual first novel caused a local scandal. Through memories and journals, both mother and daughter find themselves reliving the strains, disagreements, expectations and disappointments of their complicated relationship, ultimately finding that their enduring connection remains powerful and true. This is a late novel by O'Brien at the height of her powers, in which she delves deep into the beautiful but intense relationship that exists between mothers and daughters.

A Fanatic Heart

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 484

The Country Girls

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 146

A classic title in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy - the first volume It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend Baba are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world; of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin - where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world. 'She is one of our bravest and best novelists' Irish Times 'O'Brien rises like a lark in the clear air, she sings as she flies' Literary Review 'One of the greatest writers in the English-speaking world' New York Times Book Review

A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 0

In the Forest

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 275

The spruces are so close together that the barks are a sable-brown. Michael O'Kane is known as the 'Kinderschrek', the 'child scarer'. He haunts Cloosh Wood in western Ireland. As a boy he lost his mother and by the age of ten he was in prison. Now he seeks sacrificial victims to satisfy his delusional fantasies: a beautiful young mother, her infant son and a trusting priest, who are enticed into the forest. Inspired by a real triple homicide, this novel is a 'tour de force of finely restrained fury' ( Newsday).

Down By The River

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 224

'Edna O'Brien is one of the greatest writers in the English-speaking world' New York Times Book Review In the deceptively idyllic setting of rural Ireland, a crime of passion results in an emotional battlefield. At the centre of the crisis a young girl struggles with the conflicts of mind and body, the teaching of her faith and her mounting bewilderment at what she must do. As she tries to conceal, then escape her fate, she finds herself driven to the brink of despair. And then her private - and redeemable - tragedy is dragged into the public realm, and the power of decision is taken out of her hands. 'An angry, violent yet startlingly beautiful book' Independent on Sunday 'Taut and relentlessly powerful . . . O'Brien describes the tug of war between religious zealots and the kindly legal figures brilliantly. The story becomes grotesquely suspenseful and chilling' Literary Review 'Extraordinary and gripping . . . Down by the River is her most exciting and rewarding book by far' Observer

Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction

Autor: Maureen O'connor

Número de Páginas: 181

Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world's best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. This study considers the pioneering ways O'Brien represents women's experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work's long anticipation of movements such as #metoo.

Country Girl

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 357

The acclaimed author describes her convent school education in Ireland, the scandal that ensued upon the publication of her first novel, and the wild 1960s parties that introduced her to people from all walks of life.

On the Bone

Autor: Edna O'brien

Número de Páginas: 32