Edna O'BrienCountry Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue: (The Country Girl; The Lonely Girl; Girls in Their Married Bliss; Epilogue)

Tapa blanda pero la letra no es tan pequeña que no puedas leer.

Great book.

The perfect book for vacation reading. Packing it to travel in Iceland and Norway. The story is so true to how life was back in the day in Ireland.

I consider the content of this book to be trash. I deleted it from my kindle

I read these three novels in quick succession. The girls grow up in poverty and use whatever talents they have to get ahead. There's lot of black humor and stark tragedies caused by the girls themselves and the people in their lives. It's a coming-of-age story couched in a damning expose of Ireland itself and its poverty, drunken men, oppression of women, and cruel Catholic Church. No wonder it was banned in Ireland in the 1960s. If you grew up on "great" literature written by men, edited by men, published by men, given awards by men, reviewed by men, and taught by men then The Country Girls will come across as both a breath of fresh air and a much-needed punch in the head. And if Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt still lives in your head and makes you smile, Edna O'Brien will replace it with something more enlightened.