Country Girl: A Memoir - Hardcover

O'Brien, Edna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031612270X ISBN 13: 9780316122702

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 2013

Synopsis

The award-winning author of Saints and Sinners presents a lyrical narrative of her life that 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. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

Praise for Country Girl

"Brilliance is the best revenge....You might come to Country Girl for the gossip, but you'll stay for this memoir's ardent portrait of a young woman struggling to find her identity both as as human being and a writer....Ms. O'Brien has long and correctly been recognized as among the greatest Irish writers of the 20th century. She's had an outsize life to match her outsize talent."--Dwight Garner, New York Times

"In "Country Girl "there is great honesty and struggle, and joy and sorrow leaping together--pure life!"--Alice Munro

"Flashes of prodigious beauty and power."--Hilary Mantel

Praise for Country Girl

"Ms. O'Brien has long and correctly been recognized as among the greatest Irish writers of the 20th century. She's had an outsize life to match her outsize talent."--Dwight Garner, New York Times

"Demure reflections on her celebrated literary life well lived comprise this lovely memoir....O'Brien always returns to the enduring heart of her writing."-Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"Country Girl" is a book of magics, truths, stories, and quiet immensity. No one else could have written it, and no one else could have lived it."-Andrew O'Hagan, author of Be Near Me""

"Edna O'Brien's Country Girl" shimmers with heart, soul and literary brilliance."-Nancy R. Ives, Library Journal""

"A wonderful, lively memoir."-Katie Roiphe, "Slate.com"

Praise for Country Girl
"Ms. O'Brien has long and correctly been recognized as among the greatest Irish writers of the 20th century. She's had an outsize life to match her outsize talent."--Dwight Garner, New York Times

Praise for Country Girl
"Ms. O'Brien has long and correctly been recognized as among the greatest Irish writers of the 20th century. She's had an outsize life to match her outsize talent."--Dwight Garner, New York Times

Book Description:

Edna O'Brien's Country Girl is an astonishingly honest and compelling memoir from one the greatest names in twentieth century literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 031612270X
• ISBN 13: 9780316122702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 357