The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss - Softcover

O'Brien, Edna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571352901 ISBN 13: 9780571352906

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2019

Synopsis

Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see them struggling against the confines of a rural Irish convent school; revelling in the bright lights of Dublin; and weathering the unexpected challenges of married life in London. The passion, artistry, and courage of Edna O'Brien's vision in these novels - tender portraits of innocence and youth, love and passion, dreams and reality - resonate into the twenty-first century, and are illuminated by Eimear McBride's new foreword.

About this title

Book Description:

Edna O'Brien's iconic first novels - The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in their Married Bliss -published as a trilogy with a new foreword by Eimear McBride: Dublin's One City One Book choice for 2019.

About the Author:

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, the Frank O'Connor Prize and the PEN/Nabokov Award For Achievement in International Literature. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0571352901
• ISBN 13: 9780571352906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704