Name: The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue: (The Country Girl; The Lonely Girl; Girls in Their Married Bliss; Epilogue) (FSG Classics)
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Author: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780374537357

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The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue: (The Country Girl; The Lonely Girl; Girls in Their Married Bliss; Epilogue) (FSG Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edna O'Brien

Introduction by

Eimear McBride

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.7 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9780374537357

Synopsis "The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue: (The Country Girl; The Lonely Girl; Girls in Their Married Bliss; Epilogue) (FSG Classics)"

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.

Edna O'Brien

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Edna O’Brien is a distinguished Irish novelist and writer, known for her ability to deeply and sensitively explore the inner lives of women, as well as the social and cultural conflicts of Ireland. Her debut work, The Country Girls (1960), marked the beginning of a prolific literary career and is considered a milestone in contemporary Irish literature. This book, along with its sequels, was controversial at the time due to its bold and provocative themes

Among her most notable works are The Country Girls (1960), A Ruined House (1970), and Girl (2019), all framed within the genre of literary narrative. Her career has been widely recognized, establishing her as one of the most important literary figures of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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