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The country girls : three novels and an epilogue / Edna O'Brien ; with an introduction by Eimear McBride.
Van Pelt Library PR6065.B7 C68 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Brien, Edna, author.
- Series:
- FSG classics
- FSG Classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Ireland--Fiction.
- Women.
- Ireland.
- Manners and customs.
- Ireland--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 532 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
- Summary:
- "The country girls are Caithleen "Kate" Brady and Bridget "Baba" Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin, they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith, bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong reasons, betraying for the wrong reasons, fighting in their separate ways against the overwhelming wave of expectations forced upon "girls" of every era."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- The country girls
- The lonely girl
- Girls in their married bliss
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "This omnibus edition, with a new epilogue by the author, was originally published in 1986 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as The country girls trilogy and epilogue."--Title page verso.
- Contains:
- Country girls.
- Lonely girl.
- Girls in their married bliss.
- ISBN:
- 9780374537357
- 0374537356
- OCLC:
- 1011604634
- Publisher Number:
- 99977693124
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