Edna O Brien

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316230360

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Country Girl by Edna O'Brien Pdf

"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.

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374721381

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Girl by Edna O'Brien Pdf

Girl, Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness. I was a girl once, but not anymore. So begins Girl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of the century's greatest living authors, Girl is an unforgettable story of one victim’s astonishing survival, and her unflinching faith in the redemption of the human heart.

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571316304

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The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien Pdf

The legendary Edna O'Brien's tale of a mysterious stranger spellbinding an Irish village is 'the kind of masterpiece that reminds you why you read books in the first place' ( Observer). ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' TOP 100 NOVELS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 'Magnificent' ( Sunday Times) 'Beautiful' ( Financial Times) ' Enthralling' ( Times) 'Extraordinary' ( Independent) ' Astonishing' ( New Yorker) 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. 'One of the most interesting and ambitious [books] ever written by an Irish author.' ( Irish Times) 'One of the greatest Irish writers, of this or any era.' (Sunday Independent)

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780228013

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The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien Pdf

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

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316175500

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Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien Pdf

With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity. In Send My Roots Rain, Miss Gilhooley, a librarian, waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel-expecting to meet a celebrated poet while reflecting on the great love who disappointed her. The Irish workers of "The Shovel Kings" have pipe dreams of becoming millionaires in London, but long for their quickly changing homeland-exiles in both places. "Green Georgette" is a searing anatomy of class, through the eyes of a little girl; "Old Wounds" illuminates the importance of family and memory in old age. In language that is always bold and vital, Edna O'Brien pays tribute to the universal forces that rule our lives.

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Picador
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374721466

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The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien Pdf

The Light of Evening is a newly reissued edition of the novel by award-winning author Edna O'Brien. In Edna O'Brien's twentieth work of fiction, an elderly widow on her deathbed in rural Ireland tells the story of her life—a story of love, family, estrangement, and motherhood. "O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." —Newsweek

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916162229

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Night by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Author : Maureen O'Connor
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684483372

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Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction by Maureen O'Connor Pdf

Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960—a book that undermined the nation’s ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhood—Edna O’Brien has provoked controversy in her native Ireland and abroad. Indeed, several of her early novels were condemned by church authorities and banned by the Irish government for their frank portrayals of sexual matters and the inner lives of women. Now an internationally acclaimed writer, O’Brien must be critically reassessed for a twenty-first century audience. 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. Drawing on O’Brien’s fiction as well as archival material, and applying new theoretical approaches—including ecocritical and feminist new materialist readings—this study considers the pioneering and enduring ways O’Brien represents women’s experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work’s long anticipation of contemporary movements such as #metoo.

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 0452280508

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Mother Ireland by Edna O'Brien Pdf

"Mother Ireland" includes seven essays seamlessly woven into an autobiographical tapestry. In her lyrical, sensuous voice, O'Brien describes growing up in rural County Clare, from her days in a convent school to her first kiss to her eventual migration to England. Weaving her own personal history with the history of Ireland, she effortlessly melds local customs and ancient lore with the fascinating people and events that shaped he young life. The result is a colorful and timeless narrative that perfectly captures the heart and soul of this harshly beautiful country.

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374718022

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The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue by Edna O'Brien Pdf

A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride This omnibus edition includes the novels The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss. The country girls are Caithleen “Kate” Brady and Bridget “Baba” Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin, they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith, bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong reasons, betraying for the wrong reasons, fighting in their separate ways against the overwhelming wave of expectations forced upon "girls" of every era. The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue charts unflinchingly the pattern of women’s lives, from the high spirits of youth to the chill of middle age, from hope to despair, in remarkable prose swinging from blunt and brutal to whimsical and lyrical. It is a saga both painful and hilarious, and remains one of the major accomplishments of Edna O’Brien’s extraordinary career.

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374721503

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House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'Brien Pdf

House of Splendid Isolation is a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of Girl—“one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s Weekend Edition). The heartbreaking dilemmas and the noble and bloody history of Ireland come vividly to life in the tale of Josie, a widow living in a solitary house outside an Irish village, whose home becomes the hideout of an IRA terrorist.

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1860920365

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Irish Revel by Edna O'Brien Pdf

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374721510

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Down by the River by Edna O'Brien Pdf

Down by the River is a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of Girl—“one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s Weekend Edition). Set in the author’s native Ireland, a powerful and passionate novel about a young girl who becomes pregnant by her father—a situation made worse when it becomes fodder for the gossip mill of church, state, and the town square.

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618339655

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In the Forest by Edna O'Brien Pdf

Michael O'Kane's problems go beyond early loss and abuse--the killing instinct is already kindled in him as he earns the title of Kinderschreck: someone of whom children are afraid.