Edna O'Brien

August is a Wicked Month (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.

Banned in several countries on first publication, Edna O'Brien's August is a Wicked Month is a simmering, sansual tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and young son, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom:a 'jaunt into iniquity'. However, she soon discovers that independence blurs into loneliness, especially when she receives some heart-breaking news ...

This ebook features the first chapter of Edna O'Brien's stunning new novel, Girl, published by Faber in September 2019 and available to pre-order now.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571330560
• Artikelnr.: 44995689

Autorenporträt

Edna O'Brien wrote more than twenty celebrated novels, including her classic The Country Girls Trilogy, as well as multiple plays and works of non-fiction, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Her final novel was the acclaimed Girl, which won the Kerry Group Prize for Fiction in 2020. She was the recipient of many accolades, including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal, the Frank O'Connor Prize, the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. In 2018, O'Brien was appointed an honorary Dame of the Order of the British Empire, and in 2021, she was also awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she lived in London for many years before her death on 27 July 2024.