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Erica Jong recommended The Country Girls Trilogy in Books (curated)

 
The Country Girls Trilogy
The Country Girls Trilogy
Edna O'Brien | 2017 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"A coming-of-age story of two young Catholic girls in Ireland. This is a writer who is a woman, a lover, a daughter, a mother and she tries to bring all that together in her work. So few women writers were doing that in the 1960s. Instead, they were writing through a male persona, because they knew that otherwise they wouldn't be taken seriously. But as O'Brien says, 'I am the mother of sons; my sons have given me joy. I am a lover of men, and men have broken my heart -- but they've also given me joy."

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