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| Title Statement | The country girls: three novels and an epilogue / Edna O'Brien ; with an introduction by Eimear McBride. |
|---|---|
| Series | FSG Classics |
| Author | O'Brien, Edna |
| Additional Contributors | McBride, Eimear |
| O'Brien, Edna | |
| O'Brien, Edna | |
| O'Brien, Edna | |
| Publication | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2017.©1986 |
| Edition | Paperback edition. |
| Extent of Item | xvi, 534 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780374537357 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr05553009 |
| General Notes | "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. |
| Contents | The country girls --The lonely girl --Girls in their married bliss --Epilogue. |
| Summary | "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"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Female friendship--Fiction--Ireland |
| Women--Fiction--Ireland | |
| By Location | Ireland--Fiction--Social life and customs |
| By Genre | Domestic fiction |
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