**"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life." --National Public Radio** 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 wa
Country Girls
โ Scribed by Edna O'Brien
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 45 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.
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