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Country Girl

Autor Edna O'Brien
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2013
I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780571269440
ISBN-10: 0571269443
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: FABER & FABER

Notă biografică

Edna O'Brien, author ofThe Country Girls Trilogy,A Fanatic Heart, The Light of Evening, Saints and Sinners,and many other books, is the recipient of the James Joyce Ulysses Medal and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in London.

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Praise forCountry Girl

"Ms. O'Brien has long and correctly been recognized as among the greatest Irish writers of the 20th century. She's had an outsize life to match her outsize talent."--Dwight Garner,New York Times
"O'Brien's account of her life is completely irresistible."--Kate Tuttle,Boston Globe
"O'Brien's religion has been literature; to it she has remained devout, with a fervor that is contagious...She is no saint. She is an icon."--Stacy Schiff,New York Times Book Review
"In prose as lyrical and exacting as any in O'Brien's fiction,Country Girlevokes both the solitariness and the adventure of a life devoted to writing."--Megan O'Grady,Vogue
"Edna O'Brien has made of her memories something of both precision and depth, a book that, letting us see her as she was, jumps with an all-consuming curiosity from one lucidly narrated event to another."--Philip Roth
"InCountry Girlthere is great honesty and struggle, and joy and sorrow leaping together--pure life!"--Alice Munro
"You must suffer to become yourself, and it doesn't get easier. I took heart fromCountry Girl, both as the self-portrait of a great prose stylist, and an exemplary female survivor."--Judith Thurman, "Best Books of 2012,"The New Yorker
"Flashes of prodigious beauty and power."--Hilary Mantel
"The doyenne of contemporary Irish letters did not enjoy a straight-line rise to international fame and critical regard. . .Now, of course, O'Brien's fiction (brilliant short stories as well as novels) is seen for what it always was, richly illuminating and, yes, candid depictions of women's needs and desires, rendered with no sentimentality or salaciousness. . . .Her book is a beautifully expressed testament to a writer's tenacity."-Brad Hooper,Booklist(starred review)


"Demure reflections on her celebrated literary life well lived comprise this lovely memoir....O'Brien always returns to the enduring heart of her writing."-Publishers Weekly(starred review)
"Country Girlis a book of magics, truths, stories, and quiet immensity. No one else could have written it, and no one else could have lived it."-Andrew O'Hagan, author ofBe Near Me
"Get ready to applaud, ladies and gentlemen, because there is no one like her. O'Brien, in her 80s, may look like an icon and talk like an icon, but she writes like the thing itself, with prose that is scrupulous and lyrical, beautiful and exact...."-Anne Enright,Guardian(UK)
"When sex fails you, there's always gossip. An excellent memoir,Country Girlprovided it in shedloads, along with some moral seriousness to boot."-Louise Doughty,Observer(UK)
"Edna O'Brien'sCountry Girlshimmers with heart, soul and literary brilliance."-Nancy R. Ives,Library Journal
"After dazzling readers and reviewers around the world for decades, O'Brien, now 82, finally turns her attention to her own life.Country Girlis as dramatic as any novel."-O, the Oprah Magazine
"O'Brien is skilled at snatching triumph from melancholy....Thrilling, sensuous, unblinking."-Lisa Shea,Elle
"Edna O'Brien had to exile herself, like Joyce and Beckett, to become herself. Mad Ireland hurt her into prose the way Auden said it had hurt Yeats into poetry....Literature-O'Brien's most faithful companion, her deepest faith-brings what consolation it can. She returns the favor by adding her extravagant lyricism to its trove."-Charles McNulty,Los Angeles Times
"A wonderful, lively memoir."-Katie Roiphe,Slate.com
"Edna O'Brien, for whom the word 'redoubtable' may well have been coined, has lived a long and quite remarkable life...Anyone who knows and loves her work, as I do, will want to readCountry Girlfrom start to finish."-Jonathan Yardley,Washington Post
"We follow O'Brien through convent school, love affairs, motherhood, the banning of her books, and her working years in London and New York. Along the way, we encounter Günter Gras, Joseph Brodsky, Jackie Onassis, and other luminaries. O'Brien beautifully renders her remarkably rich life, her 'many me's.'"-The New Yorker
"This is a big, robust life, and though one might come for the literary gossip, the lucid prose and sharp insight command one's attention. It's with good reason that this memoir has been placed on so many lists of best books of 2013...We're in the thrall of one of the most beguiling and resilient contemporary writers, a stylist and a survivor...through it all, she's an exuberant literary pioneer." -Elizabeth Taylor,Chicago Tribune(Editor's Choice)