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The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss

The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss

by Edna O'Brien (Author), Edna O'Brien (Author), Eimear McBride (Foreword), Eimear McBride (Foreword)

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Synopsis

The Country Girls and its sequels, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss, changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s and inspired generation after generation of readers and writers. The passion, artistry and courage of Edna O'Brien's vision in these three novels continue to resonate into the twenty-first century - and they are collected here with a new introduction from Eimear McBride.

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Format: paperback
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published:
ISBN 10: 0571330533
ISBN 13: 9780571330539
Book Overview: A new edition of Edna O'Brien's stunning first three iconic novels - The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss - with a new introduction from Eimear McBride.

Author Bio
Since her first novel, The Country Girls, Edna O'Brien has written over twenty works of fiction as well as biographies of James Joyce and Lord Byron. She is the recipient of many awards including the Irish Pen Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Art's Gold Medal, and the Ulysses Medal. Born and raised in the west of Ireland she has lived in London for many years. Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and studied acting at Drama Centre London. Her debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took nine years to publish and subsequently received the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize, Desmond Elliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in Dubliners 100, The Long Gaze Back and on Radio 4. She occasionally reviews for the Guardian, TLS, New Statesman and New York Times Book Review.