Country girl :

O'Brien, Edna,

Country girl : a memoir / Edna O'Brien. - First North American edition. - x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Originally published: 2012.

PART ONE -- Ghosts -- Abdullah -- The Dining Room -- Visitors -- Classroom -- Carnero -- Summer Holiday -- Books -- Brides of Christ -- PART TWO -- Big Time -- The Literary Bessie Bunter -- The Doll's House -- Custody -- Nocturnes -- The Sleeve of Saskia -- Chelsea -- PART THREE -- The Blank Page -- The North -- New York, New York -- PART FOUR -- Donegal -- The Night of Time -- Wild Horses -- Banquet.

Edna O'Brien, the author of "The Country Girls" trilogy, "The Light of Evening," and "Byron in Love," portrays the events, people, emotions, and landscape that contributed to her rich and heady life. She is the recipient of the James Joyce Ulysses Medal, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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O'Brien, Edna.


Women authors, Irish--20th century--Biography.
Authors, Irish--20th century--Biography.

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