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August is a Wicked Month

Author : Edna O'Brien

Publisher : Faber & Faber

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 22,82 MB

Release : 2016-07-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0571330568

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Lose yourself in the legendary Edna O'Brien's simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera ... 'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien ... Beautiful.' Anne Enright 'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride 'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett 'A treasure.' New York Times Separated from her husband and young son, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom:a 'jaunt into iniquity' on the gorgeous French Riviera. However, she soon discovers that independence blurs into loneliness, especially when she receives some heart-breaking news ... Banned in several countries on first publication, Edna O'Brien's August is a Wicked Month is a shimmering, sensual tale of a woman rediscovering herself - and it feels just as glorious, radical, and escapist as today. 'O'Brien simply offers her characters and they come to us living.' V.S. Naipaul 'One of the greatest Irish writers, of this or any era.' Sunday Independent 'One of our bravest and best novelists ' Irish Times 'A literary great.' Times



Country Girl

Author : Edna O'Brien

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 358 pages

File Size : 25,79 MB

Release : 2013-04-30

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0316230367

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"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.



The Light of Evening

Author : Edna O'Brien

Publisher : Picador

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 35,91 MB

Release : 2020-10-20

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0374721467

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The Light of Evening is a newly reissued edition of the novel by award-winning author Edna O'Brien. In Edna O'Brien's twentieth work of fiction, an elderly widow on her deathbed in rural Ireland tells the story of her life—a story of love, family, estrangement, and motherhood. "O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." —Newsweek



Wild Decembers

Author : Edna O'Brien

Publisher : Hachette UK

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 40,72 MB

Release : 2013-12-19

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1780228058

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'A gripping love story which will keep the reader guessing to the end and delight Edna O'Brien's many fans' Literary Review When a young man arrives from Australia to claim his inheritance, he changes a small Irish town for ever. Joseph Brennan sees Michael Bugler, the returned exile, as a threat. And for Breege, Joseph's younger sister, Bugler is an irresistible stranger to whose charms she must not succumb for fear of betraying her brother. A love-hate story on many levels, Wild Decembers explores the depth and darkness at the root of all ownership. With a rich and comic cast of characters, this primal story is a complex and daring work, fixed in a time and place, yet imbued with the permanence of myth. 'The power of the writing and the dazzle of the images make the book a resounding success' Dublin Evening News 'Intense and poetic' Independent 'She is one of our bravest and best novelists' Irish Times 'She's an exceptionally good writer. Those elegant, tumbling words, and the conviction that the writer is making a really important point' Sunday Tribune





August is a Wicked Month

Author : Edna O'Brien

Publisher : Penguin Group

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 14,99 MB

Release : 1967

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction

Author : Maureen O'Connor

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 14,68 MB

Release : 2021-10-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1684483352

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Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world's best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. This study considers the pioneering ways O'Brien represents women's experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work's long anticipation of movements such as #metoo.



Edna O'Brien

Author : Kathryn Laing

Publisher : Peter Lang

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 45,22 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781904505204

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As part of Pegasos, Kuunsankosken Kaupunginkirjasto of Finland presents a biographical sketch about the Irish writer Edna O'Brien (1932- ). O'Brien has written plays, children's books, essays, screenplays, and nonfiction about Ireland. Some of O'Brien's works include "Country Girls" (1960), "The Love Object" (1968), "Night" (1972), "Mother Ireland" (1976), and "A Fanatic Heart" (1984).



Censorship

Author : Derek Jones

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 2950 pages

File Size : 25,36 MB

Release : 2001-12-01

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1136798641

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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.



Edward Heath Made Me Angry

Author : Stuart Christie

Publisher : ChristieBooks.com

Page : 317 pages

File Size : 27,28 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Anarchism

ISBN : 1873976232

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