Country Girl

Informationen zum Autor Edna O'Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal, the Frank O'Connor Prize, the PEN/Nabokov Award For Achievement in International Literature, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years. Klappentext Paperback edition of the autobiography from one of the greatest names in 20th century literature. O'Brien describes her childhood in Ireland, her move to London, and her literary life of high drama and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans. 'Wonderful, crystaline and true.' Rachel Cooke, "Observer" Vorwort The iconic memoir from the beloved Irish author of the legendary The Country Girls trilogy. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Edna Brien, O&apos, Edna Obrien, Edna O'Brien
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.06.2013
• EAN: 9780571269440
• ISBN: 978-0-571-26944-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Autobiography: literary, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form