Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction

by Maureen O'Connor

Book Overview

Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960--a book that undermined the nation's ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhood­--Edna O'Brien has provoked controversy in her native Ireland and abroad. Indeed, several of her early novels were condemned by church authorities and banned by the Irish government for their frank portrayals of sexual matters and the inner lives of women. Now an internationally acclaimed writer,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684483352
• ISBN13: 9781684483358
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher