The country girls : three novels and an epilogue

The country girls Three novels and an epilogue

Edna O'Brien

Book - 2017

"The country girls are Caithleen "Kate" Brady and Bridget "Baba" Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin, they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith, bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong reasons, betraying for the wrong reasons, fighting in their separate ways against the overwhelming wave of expectations forced upon "girls" of every era."--Back cover.

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Subjects
Women > Ireland > Fiction.
Ireland > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Edna O'Brien (author)
Other Authors
Eimear McBride (writer of introduction)
Edition
Paperback edition
Item Description
"This omnibus edition, with a new epilogue by the author, was originally published in 1986 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as The country girls trilogy and epilogue."--Title page verso.
Physical Description
xvi, 532 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780374537357
  • The Country girls
  • The Lonely girl
  • Girls in their married bliss
  • Epilogue.

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