Country Girl by Edna O'Brien

Country Girl

Edna O'Brien

368 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced

Description

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 ...

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lighthearted 16%
mysterious 16%
tense 16%

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medium 42%

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