Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien pone al lector ante el espejo con dos historias llenas de sensualidad y erotismo protagonizadas por dos mujeres en busca de sí mismas. Prohibida en distintos países tras su primera publicacion, Agosto es un mes diabolico es el hirviente relato de una mujer que se redescubrira durante un viaje a la Riviera Francesa. Ellen vive en una ciudad que le disgusta, un lugar que niega su pasado y no ofrece esperanza alguna para su futuro. Separada y con un hijo, esta determinada a cambiar su vida. Por ello, abandona Londres en busca de sol y compañia, pero el camino no sera facil. EnNoche acompañamos a Mary Hooligan durante una larga noche de insomnio. Desde su cama, recuerda su infancia en el campo irlandes y los amores vividos desde que dejo su pais para aventurarse en la costa inglesa. Nostalgico y lascivo, este ensueño erotico situa a su autora entre los mas destacados herederos del modernismo.Reseñas:Edna O'Brien es la escritora de lengua inglesa con mas talento de nuestros dias.Philip Roth Edna O'Brien escribe las historias mas bellas. Ningun escritor o escritora puede compararse a ella, en ningun lugar.Alice Munro Las novelas de Edna O'Brien son absolutamente memorables porque su genialidad procede del dolor mismo de la memoria.John BergerAgosto es un mes diabolico trata sobre la maternidad, el deseo y aprender a aceptarse a uno mismo... Es la quintaesencia de O'Brien.The Times Escribe con una prosa escrupulosa y lirica, hermosa y exacta.Guardian Edna O'Brien es una de las autoras inglesas mas importantes.New York TimesNingun autor ingles es tan bueno poniendo al lector en la piel de una mujer.Evening Standard Sobre la autora:La mayoria de los escritores nonagenarios, o bien han escrito ya su ultima novela, o estan asentados en una forma y un tono que resultan reconocibles. No es el caso de Edna O'Brien.Alec Russell, Financial TimesEdna O'Brien mueve montañas tanto liricas como politicas a traves de su escritura.Jurado del premio David Cohen Edna O'Brien ha alcanzado una coherencia brillante y muy poco comun. Su maestria literaria y su coraje impactan de igual modo al leer su ultima novela como la primera, publicada hace ya 60 años.Mark Lawson, presidente del jurado del premio David CohenEdna O'Brien es una de las pocas escritoras considerada como un gigante de la literatura tanto del siglo XX como del XXI: [...] la profundidad y envergadura de su obra a lo largo de los ultimos 60 años es innegable. Aclamada por su habilidad para definir que significa ser irlandes y que supone ser mujer, su verdadero logro reside en redefinir de mil maneras distintas y con una voz unica lo que significa ser humano.Viv GroskopEste premio no supone unicamente un reconocimiento a toda una carrera literaria, sino a la llama que aun arde en la escritura de O'Brien.Imtiaz Dharker Un escritor puede desafiar las convenciones sociales y cuestionar todo lo que considere oportuno, pero primero debe generar un apetito por su escritura, y O'Brien ha dedicado toda su larga y fructifera carrera exactamente a eso.Jon McGregor

La primera novela de Edna OBrien, Las chicas de campo, se publicó en 1960 y escandalizó tanto a la gente de su pueblo que el libro fue quemado en público. En estas memorias deslumbrantes, conocemos a esta «chica de campo» nacida en 1930 en la Irlanda rural, pero aun así una mujer libre, una creadora ferozmente apegada a su independencia. Hay en estas páginas una personalidad singularísima: conventos, fugas, divorcios, maternidad, incluso locas fiestas en el Londres de los 60 y encuentros con gigantes de Hollywood. Y también mucho amor: feliz en alguna ocasión y, sobre todo, no correspondido. Chica de campo nos lleva de los prados irlandeses a Jackie Onassis, de los brazos de Robert Mitchum a Hillary Clinton, pasando por un sinfín de personajes míticos.

Edna O''''Brien''''s stunning novel about the uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home.A Pagan Place is Edna O''''Brien''''s stunning novel about the uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home. She writes not only of a life there - of a child becoming a woman - but of the Irish experience out of which that life arises. This is the Ireland of country villages and barley fields, of druids in the woods and of mischievous girls. Ireland has marked her life and work with unmistakable colour and depth, and here she recreates her homeland with a singular grace and intensity.

Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this astonishing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequences of that fatal attraction. The Little Red Chairs is a story about love, the artifice of evil, and the terrible necessity of accountability in our shattered, damaged world. This is a narrative which dares to travel deep into the darkness has produced a book of enormous emotional intelligence and courage. Written with a fierce lyricism and sensibility, the Little Red Chairs dares to suggest there is a way back to redemption and hope when great evil is done. Almost six decades on from her debut, Edna O'Brien has produced what may be her masterpiece in the novel form.

Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like A Scandalous Woman and Saints and Sinners; stories such as ''Shovel Kings'', ''Irish Revel'', ''Lantern Slides'' and ''Paradise'' that have bewitched generation after generation.Referred to in the New York Review of Books by Harold Bloom as ''the short story master'', Edna O''Brien''s stories are a cumulative portrait of a nation, seen from within and without. Here you will find stories about families, feuds, love and land; enchantment, disenchantment, and throughout, the manifold bonds of love. Here are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and always the shimmering, potent prose.

A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O''Brien''s true novel of Ireland.Here she returns to that uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home and writes not only of a life there--of the child becoming a woman--but of the Irish experience out of which that life arises--perhaps more pointedly than in any of her other works. This is the Ireland of country villages and barley fields, of druids in the woods, of unknown babies in the womb, of mischievous girls and Tans with guns.Ireland has marked Edna O''Brien''s life and work with unmistakable color and depth, and here she recreates her homeland with a singular grace and intensity.

With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O''Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity.In "Send My Roots Rain," Miss Gilhooley, a librarian, waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel-expecting to meet a celebrated poet while reflecting on the great love who disappointed her. The Irish workers of "The Shovel Kings" have pipe dreams of becoming millionaires in London, but long for their quickly changing homeland-exiles in both places. "Green Georgette" is a searing anatomy of class, through the eyes of a little girl; "Old Wounds" illuminates the importance of family and memory in old age. In language that is always bold and vital, Edna O''Brien pays tribute to the universal forces that rule our lives.

BYRON IN LOVE - the nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron''s life.Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal.Everything about Lord George Gordon Byron was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly, and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in a child''s magic and malices. He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator.Edna O''Brien''s exemplary biography focuses upon the diverse and colourful women in Byron''s life.

Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her debut novel, The Country Girls, in an inspired account of a dying mother and her daughter From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her; emigrating to America in the 1920s, a romantic liaison she had there, the destiny that brought her back to Ireland, and her marriage. She also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner, and Dilly's heart-rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her daughter. Eleanora's visit does not prove to be the glad reunion that it might have been and, in her sudden departure, she leaves behind the secret journal of their stormy relationship. The Light of Evening is a novel of dreams and broken dreams but, at its core, is the realisation that the bond between mother and child is unbreakable, stronger even than death

I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.In this audacious new work, Edna OBrien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James Joyce.James Joyce had been my ultimate hero for sixty years, but to paint the canvas of his life was daunting. Therefore I decided to depict him as seen by the key figures in his life - Mother, Wife, Mistress of a fleeting moment, his patron Harriet Weaver and his beloved Daughter Lucia, of whom he said her mind was but a transparent leaf away from his.Written to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses,Joyces Women premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2022.

Edna OBriens wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.

Edna OBriens beloved and controversial modern classics reveal the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a foreword by Eimear McBride).The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - theres no one like Edna OBrien ... Beautiful. Anne Enright Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon. Megan NolanBrilliant and brave.Ann PatchettGlittering energy. Colm ToibinONE OF THE BBCS 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLDCaithleen Kate Brady and Bridget Baba Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to fight the expectations forced upon girls of every era to become brave new women.Edna OBriens debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. Banned by the authorities as indecent and burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers to this day.

Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel; imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his notorious flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal.Everything about Lord George Gordon Byron was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly, and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in a child's magic and malices. He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator.Edna O'Brien's exemplary biography focuses upon the diverse and colourful women in Byron's life.

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

In una grande casa isolata, immersa nella campagna irlandese, vive Josie, un'anziana signora che ha alle spalle un matrimonio infelice con un ubriacone violento. Adesso che e vecchia e malata si trova a dover affrontare di nuovo la solitudine con un uomo brutale. Si tratta di McGreevy, soprannominato "La bestia", un membro dell'Ira ricercato dalla polizia e dall'esercito, che le piomba in casa all'improvviso in cerca di rifugio. Tra le pareti al contempo protettive e opprimenti della casa si instaura ben presto un legame fra i due diversissimi personaggi.

Edna O''Brien''s classic, rocket of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering originality.Out of print for some time, and now made available in the wake of O''Brien''s bestselling memoir, Country Girl, Night is a novel which introduces us to one of the most compelling and garrulous narrators in modern fiction.