The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue

by Edna O'Brien

Paperback, 1987

Publication

Plume (1987), Paperback, 544 pages

Description

"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."--Back cover.

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Physical description

544 p.; 7.96 inches

ISBN

0452263948 / 9780452263949
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