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COUNTRY GIRL

COUNTRY GIRL

EDNA O'BRIEN

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Publisher:
FABER & FABER
Year of publication:
2013
Subject:
Non fiction
ISBN:
978-0-571-26944-0
Pages:
339
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Born in Ireland in 1930 and driven into exile after publication of her controversial first novel, "The Country Girls", O'Brien has created a body of work which bears comparison with the very best writers of the twentieth century. In "Country Girl" we come face to face with literary life of high drama and contemplation. And along the way there are encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans - all of whom lend this life, so gorgeously, sometimes painfully remembered here, a terrible poignancy. In prose which sparkles with the effortless gifts of a master in her ninth decade, Edna O'Brien has recast her life with the imaginative insight of a poet. It is a book of unfathomable depths and honesty.

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