Full name: Country Girl: A Memoir

Author: Edna O'Brien Year: 1960 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, History Culture: Ireland Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316122702 9780316122719 031612270X 0316122718

"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."--National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime. Similar books: Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill Name All the Animals by Alison Smith Sleeping with Cats by Marge Piercy Moose by Stephanie Klein A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg Dreaming by Carolyn See All That Is Bitter & Sweet by Ashley Judd Lost In Place by Mark Salzman Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard Wild Swans by Jung Chang Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Having Our Say by Sarah L. Delany