{"product_id":"the-country-girls-trilogy","title":"The Country Girls Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdna O'Brien's beloved classics plunge us into the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a new foreword by Eimear McBride).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien ... Beautiful.'\u003ci\u003e Anne Enright \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' \u003ci\u003eEimear McBride\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliant and brave.' \u003ci\u003eAnn Patchett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A treasure.' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaithleen \u003cb\u003e'Kate' Brady\u003c\/b\u003e and Bridget \u003cb\u003e'Baba' Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdna O'Brien's debut novels revolutionised \u003cb\u003eIrish \u003c\/b\u003eliterature in the 1960s. \u003cb\u003eBanned \u003c\/b\u003eby the authorities as 'indecent' and \u003cb\u003eburned \u003c\/b\u003eby the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of \u003cb\u003esexual \u003c\/b\u003edesire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an \u003cb\u003einstant classic \u003c\/b\u003ethat inspires and delights readers to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Buoyantly youthful ... With all the freshness in the world.'\u003ci\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An excellent and highly unusual blend of bawdiness and innocence.' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'O'Brien simply offers her characters and they come to us living.'\u003ci\u003e V.S. Naipaul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A natural writer ... [such] unphoney charm and unlaborious originality.'\u003ci\u003e Kingsley Amis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the greatest Irish writers, of this or any era.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of our bravest and best novelists\u003ci\u003e' Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A literary great.'\u003ci\u003e Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53848015536466,"sku":"9780571352906","price":16.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_69d5cf0a-3d1d-4a3f-bfb4-9e9219121fdf.jpg?v=1782486574","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-country-girls-trilogy","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}