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    Country Girl
    Country Girl
    Country Girl
    Audiobook16 hours

    Country Girl

    Written by Edna O'Brien

    Narrated by Edna O'Brien

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    I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, corssed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life . . .

    The publication of Edna O'Brien's memoir is one of the major literary events of the season. Born in Ireland in 1930 and driven into exile after publication of her controversial first novel, The Country Girls, O' Brien has created a body of work which bears comparison with the very best writing of the twentieth century.

    In her memoir Country Girl we come face to face with a literary life of high drama and contemplation. And along the way there are encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans - all of whom lend this life, so gorgeously, sometimes painfully remembered, a terrible poignancy.

    In prose which sparkles with the effortless gifts of a master, Edna O'Brien has recast her life with the imaginative insight of a poet. Country Girl is a book of unfathomable depths and honesty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateSep 17, 2012
    ISBN9780571308477
    Country Girl
    Author

    Edna O'Brien

    Edna O’Brien (1930–2024) was the author of more than twenty-five works of fiction, including The Country Girls, The Little Red Chairs, and The Light of Evening. She received numerous awards, including the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, the Irish PEN Award for Literature, the National Arts Club Medal of Honor, and the Ulysses Medal. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she lived in London for many years.

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