Country Girls

Literature & Fiction

Edna O'Brien

Literary

Hutchinson

August is a Wicked Month

Separated from her husband, Ellen finds herself living alone in a city she dislikes - a place that denies her past and offers no hope for her future. Determined to change her life, she decides to go south in search of sun and companionship.

August Is a Wicked Month

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Explores the many roads traveled by women in a tale of three women on European island who experience life's disappointments, changes, and quiet surprises

The High Road

Contemporary

Twelve stories deal with love, incest, passion, aging, death, and loneliness

Lantern Slides

Vanishing Ireland

Arts & Photography

Richard Fitzgerald

Photography & Video

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Long before Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)and Nuala O'Faolain (Are You Somebody?) reminisced about the hardships and humor of their Irish childhoods, acclaimed novelist Edna O'Brien captured the soul of Ireland and its people in her 1976 memoir, Mother Ireland. Long out-of-print, Plume is reissuing this emerald gem so that it will take its rightful place among contemporary Irish classics. Mother Ireland includes seven essays seamlessly woven into an autobiographical tapestry. In her lyrical, sensuous voice, O'Brien describes growing up in rural County Clare, from her days in a convent school to her first kiss to her eventual migration to England. Weaving her own personal history with the history of Ireland, she effortlessly melds local customs and ancient lore with the fascinating people and events that shaped he young life. The result is a colorful and timeless narrative that perfectly captures the heart and soul of this harshly beautiful country. Rendered with grace and beauty, resonating with emotion and passion, Mother Ireland is an ode to a time, a place, and a people that one can leave, but never leave behind.

Mother Ireland

Littlehampton Book Services Lt

Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they leave the safety of their convent school in search of life and love in the big city, they struggle to maintain their somewhat tumultuous relationship. Kate, dreamy and romantic, yearns for true love, while Baba just wants to experience the life of a single girl. Although they set out to conquer the world together, as their lives take unexpected turns, Kate and Baba must ultimately learn to find their own way.  "It's a difficult trip, this coming of age . . . O'Brien tells it with love and outrage, compassion and contempt." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)  "A treasure . . . powerful . . . intelligent . . . ironic." (The New York Times Book Review)

The Country Girls

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

Lantern Slides: Stories

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like A Scandalous Woman and Saints and Sinners; stories such as 'Shovel Kings', 'Irish Revel', 'Lantern Slides' and 'Paradise' that have bewitched generation after generation. Referred to in the New York Review of Books by Harold Bloom as 'the short story master', Edna O'Brien's stories are a cumulative portrait of a nation, seen from within and without. Here you will find stories about families, feuds, love and land; enchantment, disenchantment, and throughout, the manifold bonds of love. Here are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and always the shimmering, potent prose.

The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien

Faber&Faber

Unable to sleep, Mary Hooligan lies in a four-poster bed and recalls her misadventures, courtships and sexual encounters. This powerful novel delivers a frank account of a womans life and desires in a poetic and original voice.

Night

Faber & Faber Fiction

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