Deze trilogie beschrijft de adolescentie en volwassenheid van twee jonge Ierse vrouwen in het midden van de 20e eeuw. De auteur onderzoekt scherpzinnig hun verlangens naar liefde, vrijheid en onafhankelijkheid binnen een patriarchale samenleving. We volgen hun reizen van hun jeugd op het platteland tot de zoektocht naar zelfontdekking en vervulling in het turbulente stadsleven. De serie staat bekend om zijn openhartige en gedurfde weergave van vrouwelijke seksualiteit en maatschappelijke normen.
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.
De lotgevallen van twee Ierse meisjes in hun jeugd, op de nonnenkostschool en in hun huwelijken. Inclusief epiloog.