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Synopsis
A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed; an Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold, an outside both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land. A collection characterised by all of Edna O'Brien's trademark lyricism, powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions.
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`Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' --ALICE MUNRO
`There is no living Irish writer who compares in terms of style, stamina, depth or meaning.' --COLUM MCCANN
'Subversion is what catapulted Edna O'Brien to literary stardom ... she can still cut the ground from under your feet.' --The Times
`O'Brien has great gifts: an inimitable lyrical voice [and] an unflinching, uncompromising gaze that lays bare love, longing and families.' --Irish Independent
`One great virtue of Edna O'Brien's writing is the sensation it gives of a world made new by language.'
--Seamus Heaney
'O'Brien is at the top of her game in this wonderful collection, suffused with regret and a sense of absence, yet full of vitality.' --Sunday Times
'Tangled relationships between mothers and daughters, family feuds that will never quite be resolved, the moral bankruptcy of a boom-time businessman: old and new versions of Ireland collide in these powerful tales.' --Irish Times
'Proves her powers of observation and description remain undiminished. There is much tenderness and compassion about remembered childhood, exile and return, and desires repressed or violently acted upon.' --Financial Times Books of the Year
'Tangled relationships between mothers and daughters, family feuds that will never quite be resolved, the moral bankruptcy of a boom-time businessman: old and new versions of Ireland collide in these powerful tales.' --Irish Times
'Proves her powers of observation and description remain undiminished. There is much tenderness and compassion about remembered childhood, exile and return, and desires repressed or violently acted upon.' --Financial Times
'Tangled relationships between mothers and daughters, family feuds that will never quite be resolved, the moral bankruptcy of a boom-time businessman: old and new versions of Ireland collide in these powerful tales.' --Irish Times
Book Description
The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.
Her stunning new novel Girl will be published by Faber in September 2019, available to pre-order now
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 057127031X
- ISBN 13 9780571270316
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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