Country Girl
by:
Edna O'Brien (author)
Country Girl 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...
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Country Girl 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. Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571269440 (0571269443)
Publish date: June 6th 2013
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Irish Literature,
Ireland,
Biography Memoir,
Womens
BOTWRead by author.I see this is not due for publication until April 2013 - we must be guineapigs.BBC sourced blurb: The great Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, whose controversial 1960 novel brought her both literary fame and notoriety back home, reads her astonishingly honest memoir of a literary life o...
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