A Pagan Place - Softcover

O'Brien, Edna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374538794 ISBN 13: 9780374538798

Publisher: Picador USA, 2019

Synopsis

A newly reissued edition of this haunting, poetic coming-of-age novel from "one of the great writers...in the English-speaking world" (The New York Times)

"O'Brien's evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on the living." --Paul Gray, Time

"O'Brien brings together the earthy and the delicately poetic: she has the soul of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." --Ray Sawhill, Newsweek

In A Pagan Place, Edna O'Brien returns to Ireland, the uniquely wonderful, terrible, and peculiar place she once called home. After leaving to join a religious community in Belgium, a young woman remembers her childhood on the western coast of Ireland. She reflects on the rituals of rural life, the people she encountered, and the enchanting beauty of the landscape.

This is the Ireland of country villages and barley fields, of mischievous girls and druids in the woods. As the impressions of her former home intensify, her mind turns to the shocking event that led to her departure.

About this title

About the Author:

Since her debut novel, The Country Girls, EDNA O'BRIEN has written more than twenty works of fiction. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal, and the Frank O'Connor Prize. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0374538794
• ISBN 13: 9780374538798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240