The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue

Name: The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue
Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SKU: 9780374537357-N
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By Edna O'Brien

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A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride This omnibus edition includes the novels The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss. 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. The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue charts unflinchingly the pattern of women's lives, from the high spirits of youth to the chill of middle age, from hope to despair, in remarkable prose swinging from blunt and brutal to whimsical and lyrical. It is a saga both painful and hilarious, and remains one of the major accomplishments of Edna O'Brien's extraordinary career.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 554
Release Date:: 2017-11-14
Publication Date:: 2017-11-14
Publisher:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0374537356
ISBN13:: 9780374537357
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 647 g
Height:: 141 cm
Width:: 208 cm
Thickness:: 40 cm

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