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The Country Girls is a trilogy by Irish author Edna O'Brien. It consists of three novels: The Country Girls (1960), The Lonely Girl (1962), and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). The trilogy was re-released in 1986 in a single volume with a revised ending to Girls in Their Married Bliss and addition of an epilogue.
Read 757 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together.…
1 day ago · "The Country Girls" (1960), about the sexual initiation of rebellious Catholic girls, drawn from O'Brien's childhood experiences, is now a marker in modern Irish literature for its breaking of social and sexual taboos. O'Brien was born in 1930 into a strict Catholic farming family in west Ireland's County Clare.
2 days ago · Furthermore, The Country Girls, followed shortly by two almost equally controversial sequels, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss, was shining an unwelcome light on the human cost of the cultural, social and intellectual stagnation that was suffocating the country by the beginning of the 1960s. With every aspect of women’s lives ...
1 day ago · NEW YORK (AP) — Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House, has died. She was 93. O’Brien died Saturday after a long illness, according to a statement by her publisher Faber and the literary agency PFD.
2 days ago · O'Brien was an unknown about to turn 30, living with her husband and two small children outside of London, when “The Country Girls” made her Ireland’s most notorious exile since James Joyce.
2 days ago · Edna O’Brien has died at age 93. NEW YORK — Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining ...
1 day ago · The Country Girls took three weeks to write, but her memoir, The Country Girl, published in 2012, took as many years. Ireland's shame O'Brien had a long and fraught relationship with Ireland.
Jan 1, 2001 · From the acclaimed author of Country Girl: A Memoir Kate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life: romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world.
The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1), Girl with Green Eyes (The Country Girls Trilogy, #2), Girls in Their Married Bliss (The Country Girls...
