CBR14 Bingo: Scandal “But we want young men. Romance. Love and things,” I said, despondently. Edna O’Brien is kind of a giant in Irish fiction, so it was kind of embarrassing, really, that I hadn’t read any of her work before this summer. (Yes, this is another installment in my Summer of Irish Fiction.) She’s now in her nineties and only recently retired, and she’s published steadily ever since her first novel, Country Girl (included in this volume), which came out in 1960 and immediately scandalized […]
“Life was a bitch. Love was also a bitch.”
The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue by Edna O'Brien