The Country Girls /
Edna O'Brien.
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Summary: | "The Country Girls is a novel about two young girls: Caithleen, the quiet, brooding one, and Baba, her happy-go-lucky friend. It is the story of their childhood in Ireland, their education in a convent, and finally their escape to Dublin in search of life and love. Children grow into young women, girls grow towards men; and Caithleen falls in love with the sad, disenchanted Mr. Gentleman. It is written in a beautifully befitting style which is gay, lyrical, delicate, funny and sad, capturing as never before the melancholy charm of a decaying countryside. When you see girls in their summer dresses, you with think of Caithleen and Baba, because their ways, wanton and skittish and cunning, are the ways of all girls. Miss O'Brien is such a natural writer, that her seemingly casual sentences have life itself in the middle of them." Description transcribed from leaf of book jacket. |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Hutchinson,
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Edition: | First Edition. |
Notes: | "Book society recommended". - quote from jacket. "Edna O'Brien, now in her twenties, wrote her first novel at nine. No one published it. Later she went through the usual Irish education; qualified as a chemist; married the novelist Ernest Gebler; learnt to read; and wrote The Country Girls during twelve weeks of London fog." - from bookplate affixed to jacket. Exhibited as part of 'The Moderns', 20 October 2010 - 13 February 2011 at Irish Museum of Modern Art Kingsley Amis Award 1962. Physical description: 223 pages ; 21 cm. more |