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Edna O'Brien has made of her memories something of both precision and depth, a book that, letting us see her as she was, jumps with an all-consuming curiosity from one lucidly narrated event to another, the scenes of disenchantment and bewilderment mingling with an assortment of surprises, traps, and ventures that are often, but not always, disastrous shocks. She is an observer of tears, including her own, and is able to differentiate what she calls the good tears from the bad. Only Colette is her equal as a student of the ardors of an independent woman who is also on her own as a writer.
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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
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"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
Edna O'Brien's Country Girl is an astonishingly honest and compelling memoir from one the greatest names in twentieth century literature.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0571300227
- ISBN 13 9780571300228
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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