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1. www.nytimes.com › 2013/05/12 › books‘Country Girl: A Memoir,’ by Edna O’Brien - The New York Times

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   By Stacy Schiff. May 10, 2013. “Are you or are you not a good girl?” Edna O’Brien’s mother wants to know. The options are telling; they imply a less-than-even division of territory. Imagine a...

2. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › booksCountry Girl, By Edna O'Brien - The Independent

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   O'Brien's most recent book, 2011's short story collection Saints and Sinners, showed that she is still most comfortable dealing with the inner life of love and loss; her stories...

3. www.newstatesman.com › culture › 2024Banned, burned and reviled: what was so radical about Edna O ...

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   By turns beautiful and bawdy, funny and haunting, The Country Girls, often referred to as the quintessential tale of Irish girlhood, is not the novel that broke the mould, it is the one that made it.

4. evoke.ie › 2024/07/31 › viewpointReview: Edna O'Brien's banned trilogy The Country Girls - EVOKE

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   Her most notable work was The Country Girls trilogy, which earned itself a nationwide ban upon its release in 1960 after it was deemed 'sexually explicit'. The book was banned by the Irish Censorship Board, but the criticism didn't stop there.

5. www.npr.org › 2013/04/27 › 179015621'Country Girl' Edna O'Brien On A Lifetime Of Lit, Loneliness ...

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   The Irish writer scandalized audiences with her 1960 novel, The Country Girls. Half a century later, she looks back on her childhood in a small village, her fame and its accessories and above...

6. judithmckinnon.com › 2022/07/08 › book-review-theBook Review: The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien – an Irish ...

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   Edna O’Brien writes in a way that is both amusing and entertaining, but also puts you in the time and place. 1960s Dublin is full of all kinds of traps for young girls; the sexism is horrific, so you can’t help admiring Baba’s mother who is worldly wise and does what she feels like, even hiding the chicken dinner from her husband in her wardrobe...

7. www.goodreads.com › book › showCountry Girl: A Memoir by Edna O' Brien | Goodreads

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   A party girl she may have been but The Country Girl is no kiss and tell memoir. In fact she is remarkably silent on the identity of some of the men who played a part in her life, including someone who seemed to have been an eminent British politician.