TY - BOOK AU - O'Brien,Edna TI - Country girl: a memoir SN - 9780316122702 U1 - 823/.914 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Company KW - O'Brien, Edna. KW - Women authors, Irish KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Authors, Irish N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -