"Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue" von Edna O'Brien ist eine Sammlung, die aus drei Romanen besteht: "The Country Girls", "The Lonely Girl" und "Girls in Their Married Bliss". Diese Romane verfolgen das Leben von zwei jungen...

Features stories of families, feuds, enchantment, disenchantment and the manifold bonds of love. These stories are about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and always in...

'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday TelegraphEdna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of...