This trilogy chronicles the coming-of-age and adulthood of two young Irish women in the mid-20th century. The author incisively explores their desires for love, freedom, and independence within a patriarchal society. We follow their journeys from a rural upbringing to seeking self-discovery and fulfillment in the tumultuous city life. The series is renowned for its candid and bold depiction of female sexuality and societal constraints.
This novel tells the story of two Irish girls, Caithleen Brady and Bridget Brennan, and their escape from a life filled with countryside and convent to the allure and the crowds, lights and noise of Dublin.
The New York Times Book Review hailed The Country Girls, the first book in Edna O'Brien's critically acclaimed trilogy, as "Powerful. Intelligent. Ironic. A treasure."The Lonely Girl continues the story of childhood friends Kate and Baba, now both twenty-one, as they navigate the rocky, sometimes treacherous pathways of urban life. With hearts as big as Dublin, and hopes as bright as new pennies, they move bravely and eagerly toward the future. Yet the two couldn't be more different. Kate toils in a grocery shop and lives out her romantic fantasies in books. Baba entertains more earthbound dreams. Their principles—and friendship—are tested when Kate meets a dashing married man, and discovers the exhilaration of passion...and the consequences of falling in love.A novel that combines the teeming ethos of big-city life with the ambitions and yearnings of two emerging young women, The Lonely Girl is a stellar achievement from one of Ireland's finest storytellers.
The third volume of Edna O'Brien's classic Country Girls Trilogy.
"This omnibus edition, with a new epilogue by the author, was originally published in 1986 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as The country girls trilogy and epilogue."--Title page verso.
Kate y Baba han pasado su infancia en la campiña irlandesa y han forjado su personalidad entre la belleza de paisajes rurales y la asfixia de internados religiosos. Distintas, pero inseparables, comparten la ambición de dar un vuelco a sus vidas y deciden probar suerte en la gran ciudad. Primero Dublín, que desatará el desboque, la confusión, el miedo, las pasiones intermitentes, el amor en avalancha y el dolor cotidiano de las vidas más reconocibles. Más adelante, Londres las sumerge en el matrimonio, la madurez y la fragilidad de los anhelos. Las chicas del campo es una trilogía memorable sobre dos chicas en busca de libertad que sacudió la Irlanda de los años sesenta.
Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s.
De lotgevallen van twee Ierse meisjes in hun jeugd, op de nonnenkostschool en in hun huwelijken. Inclusief epiloog.
