Background
O'Brien, Edna was born on December 15, 1936 in County Clare, Ireland. Daughter of Michael and Lena (Cleary) O'B.
(“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...)
“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...captures the vigilance of childhood and reproduces, eerily intact, its heightened sensations.” —Newsday From the acclaimed author of Country Girl: A Memoir Kate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life: romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world. Under the big city’s bright lights, they spin their lives into a whirl of comic and touching misadventures, wild flirtations, and reckless passions. But love changes everything. And as their lives take unexpected and separate turns, Baba and Kate must ultimately learn to go it alone. A beautiful portrait of the pain and joy of youth, the ruin of marriage gone wrong, and the ache of lost friendship and love, this trilogy of Edna O’Brien’s remarkable early novels is more than just a harbinger of the stunning and masterly writer she has become.
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( "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her...)
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."--National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.
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(The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba...)
The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba Brennan. This trilogy tells the story of their escape from countryside and convent out into the world, into the bright city lights of Dublin and, naive and reckless, into a whirl of flirtations and passionate misadventures.
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(The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba...)
The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba Brennan. This trilogy tells the story of their escape from countryside and convent out into the world, into the bright city lights of Dublin and, naive and reckless, into a whirl of flirtations and passionate misadventures.
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(Girls in Their Married Bliss continues the tale of Kate a...)
Girls in Their Married Bliss continues the tale of Kate and Baba, two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life. Romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world. Under the big city's bright lights, they spin their lives into a whirl of comic and touching misadventures, wild flirtations, and reckless passions. But love changes everything. And as their lives take unexpected and separate turns, Baba and Kate must ultimately learn to go it alone.
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(Separated from her husband, Ellen finds herself living al...)
Separated from her husband, Ellen finds herself living alone in a city she dislikes - a place that denies her past and offers no hope for her future. Determined to change her life, she decides to go south in search of sun and companionship.
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(When the euphoria of Willa's first love faded, it is repl...)
When the euphoria of Willa's first love faded, it is replaced by bitterness. Fragile and aching, she seeks refuge with Tom and Patsy and in their crumbling marriage finds a kind of solace. Patsy also yearns to escape, for Tom's overwhelming need for her has become intolerable.
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(Collected here for the first time are stories spanning fi...)
Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master." (Harold Bloom) As John Banville writes in his introduction to THE LOVE OBJECT, Edna O'Brien "is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time." The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In "A Rose in the Heart of New York," the single-mindedness of love dramatically derails the relationship between a girl and her mother, while in "Sister Imelda" and "The Creature" the strong ties between teacher and student and mother and son are ultimately broken. "The Love Object" recounts a passionate affair between the narrator and her older lover. The magnificent, mid-career title story from Lantern Slides portrays a Dublin dinner party that takes on the lives and loves of all the guests. More recent stories include "Shovel Kings"--"a masterpiece of compression, distilling the pain of a lost, exiled generation" (Sunday Times)--and "Old Wounds," which follows the revival and demise of the friendship between two elderly cousins. In 2011, Edna O'Brien's gifts were acknowledged with the most prestigious international award for the story, the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. THE LOVE OBJECT illustrates a career's worth of shimmering, potent prose from a writer of great courage, vision, and heart. "The most striking aspect of Edna O'Brien's short stories, aside from the consistent mastery with which they are executed, is their diversity."-- John Banville
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(This book was the winner of the Frank O'Connor Internatio...)
This book was the winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object features stories from many of Edna O'Brien's collections; stories that have bewitched generation after generation. Here you will find tales of families, feuds, enchantment, disenchantment and the manifold bonds of love. There are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and always in shimmering prose.
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( A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. ...)
A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. Here she returns to that uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home and writes not only of a life there--of the child becoming a woman--but of the Irish experience out of which that life arises--perhaps more pointedly than in any of her other works. This is the Ireland of country villages and barley fields, of druids in the woods, of unknown babies in the womb, of mischievous girls and Tans with guns. Ireland has marked Edna O'Brien's life and work with unmistakable color and depth, and here she recreates her homeland with a singular grace and intensity.
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(With dialogue that crackles and an engaging central chara...)
With dialogue that crackles and an engaging central characyter, Barry Norman brings his unique insight of the movie trade to a world where crime, sexual passion, money and drugs walk hand in hand.
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“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...captures the vigilance of childhood and reproduces, eerily intact, its heightened sensations.” —Newsday From the acclaimed author of Country Girl: A Memoir Kate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life: romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world. Under the big city’s bright lights, they spin their lives into a whirl of comic and touching misadventures, wild flirtations, and reckless passions. But love changes everything. And as their lives take unexpected and separate turns, Baba and Kate must ultimately learn to go it alone. A beautiful portrait of the pain and joy of youth, the ruin of marriage gone wrong, and the ache of lost friendship and love, this trilogy of Edna O’Brien’s remarkable early novels is more than just a harbinger of the stunning and masterly writer she has become.
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(The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba...)
The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba Brennan. This trilogy tells the story of their escape from countryside and convent out into the world, into the bright city lights of Dublin and, naive and reckless, into a whirl of flirtations and passionate misadventures.
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(The author of A Fanatic Heart offers a timely novel that ...)
The author of A Fanatic Heart offers a timely novel that looks into the mind and heart of contemporary Ireland as an escaped IRA operative takes refuge in an abandoned house--until the occupant unexpectedly returns home. Reprint. NYT.
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(An autobiographical tapestry; recollections of an Irish c...)
An autobiographical tapestry; recollections of an Irish childhood linked to an account of a journey there today, interwoven with fragments of Irish mythology, history and hearsay.
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(In this homage to their homeland, acclaimed author Edna O...)
In this homage to their homeland, acclaimed author Edna O'Brien and gifted photographer Richard Fitzgerald recall an Ireland that is quickly becoming part of the past. 80 duotone photographs and 24 full-color photographs.
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(A first rate collection of short stories from the critica...)
A first rate collection of short stories from the critically acclaimed author of House of Splendid isolation and Down by the RiverWhen all the convent girls were in love with Clark Gable...When bachelors rose on lonely bicycles, and jam was a luxury...In this excellent collection of short stories, Edna O'Brien powerfully evokes the sensations of childhood and adolescence in Ireland - the smells and tastes , the fears and joys, the sadness and the confusions.
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( In these selections from twenty years of her best short...)
In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness. Throughout, there is always O'Brien's voice--wondrous, despairing, moving--examining passionate subjects that lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a woman's heart.
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(It is a collection of short stories already published und...)
It is a collection of short stories already published under different titles; they are summoned now with a common objective: to show a deep and complete analysis of women's world. The presence almost overwhelming of feminine figures (rural and urban women, young or elder, married or single, raw and sophisticated) is the leading thread of this collection. Their decisions, vital choices, their problems, the situations they have to face due to the fact that they belong to the so-called ``weak
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(The twenty-nine stories in this volume include all nine f...)
The twenty-nine stories in this volume include all nine from RETURNING; four uncollected stories that have previously appeared in the NEW YORKER and the author's own selections from THE LOVE OBJECT, A SCANDALOUS WOMAN and MRS REINHARDT. Love and loss, the villages and countryside of western Ireland, sexual intimacy and social alienation - everything that makes Edna O'Brien such a distinctive voice in contemporary fiction is contained in these stories.
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(Contains 12 short stories in which the main themes are in...)
Contains 12 short stories in which the main themes are innocence and experience. The characters live in cities or in the country and have a craving for redemption - through love, solitude or self-awareness. From the author of "A Pagan Place" and "Night".
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(Features giants and leprechauns, heroes and princesses. S...)
Features giants and leprechauns, heroes and princesses. Stories of love and high deeds which have been passed from generation to generation are now presented together in this book of Irish tales.
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(A collection of twelve folk and fairy tales from Ireland,...)
A collection of twelve folk and fairy tales from Ireland, including "The Magic Apples," "The Swan Bride," and "Paddy the Piper."
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(Issued in paperback for St. Patrick''s Day, t his is a cl...)
Issued in paperback for St. Patrick''s Day, t his is a classic collection of traditional Irish tales retol d by the well-known Irish writer Edna O''Brien and illustrate d by children''s author Michael Foreman. '
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( A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. ...)
A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. Here she returns to that uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home and writes not only of a life there--of the child becoming a woman--but of the Irish experience out of which that life arises--perhaps more pointedly than in any of her other works. This is the Ireland of country villages and barley fields, of druids in the woods, of unknown babies in the womb, of mischievous girls and Tans with guns. Ireland has marked Edna O'Brien's life and work with unmistakable color and depth, and here she recreates her homeland with a singular grace and intensity.
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(“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...)
“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...captures the vigilance of childhood and reproduces, eerily intact, its heightened sensations.” —Newsday From the acclaimed author of Country Girl: A Memoir Kate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life: romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world. Under the big city’s bright lights, they spin their lives into a whirl of comic and touching misadventures, wild flirtations, and reckless passions. But love changes everything. And as their lives take unexpected and separate turns, Baba and Kate must ultimately learn to go it alone. A beautiful portrait of the pain and joy of youth, the ruin of marriage gone wrong, and the ache of lost friendship and love, this trilogy of Edna O’Brien’s remarkable early novels is more than just a harbinger of the stunning and masterly writer she has become.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452263948/?tag=2022091-20
( "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her...)
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."--National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.
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(Love and its objects are the common elements in these eig...)
Love and its objects are the common elements in these eight stories: the nervous love of a country mother for her sophisticated, town-living daughter, the adoration of a mistress for her married lover and less orthodox affairs between women and their illusions.
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(The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba...)
The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba Brennan. This trilogy tells the story of their escape from countryside and convent out into the world, into the bright city lights of Dublin and, naive and reckless, into a whirl of flirtations and passionate misadventures.
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(Edna O'Brien's most personal and most powerful novel in p...)
Edna O'Brien's most personal and most powerful novel in print from Plume for the first time. In a poignant, heart-felt exploration of one woman's struggle to be true to herself yet hold on to the things dearest to her, award-winning author Edna O'Brien tracks the life of Nell Steadman, an innocent "country girl" desperate to gain experience in whatever manner possible. Escaping from her overbearing family into an equally stifling marriage, Nell must fight for her freedom and custody of her children. Passionate, raw, and gorgeously written, Time and Tide is a profound exploration of the primal undertow of motherhood. "Brilliantly expressed...O'Brien is one of the great writers of stories in the English-speaking world." --The New York Times Book Review "Time and Tide is O'Brien's harshest yet most beautiful work. O'Brien brings together the earthly and the delicately poetic: she has the soul of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." --Newsweek "Adjectives for Edna O'Brien's fiction inevitably include rich, raw, bleak, and relentless. As always in Ms. O'Brien's work, there is wonderful writing about passion." --The Wall Street Journal "Sharp, perfectly observed, true." --The Boston Globe
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The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba Brennan. This trilogy tells the story of their escape from countryside and convent out into the world, into the bright city lights of Dublin and, naive and reckless, into a whirl of flirtations and passionate misadventures.
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(Describes the celebration of St. Valentine's Day from pag...)
Describes the celebration of St. Valentine's Day from pagan festi-vals to present-day activities. "Interesting and concise text along with lists of stories, poems, and sources." -- School Library Journal
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Girls in Their Married Bliss continues the tale of Kate and Baba, two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life. Romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world. Under the big city's bright lights, they spin their lives into a whirl of comic and touching misadventures, wild flirtations, and reckless passions. But love changes everything. And as their lives take unexpected and separate turns, Baba and Kate must ultimately learn to go it alone.
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(Girls in Their Married Bliss continues the tale of Kate a...)
Girls in Their Married Bliss continues the tale of Kate and Baba, two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life. Romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world. Under the big city's bright lights, they spin their lives into a whirl of comic and touching misadventures, wild flirtations, and reckless passions. But love changes everything. And as their lives take unexpected and separate turns, Baba and Kate must ultimately learn to go it alone.
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(Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked t...)
Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, "The Country Girls", the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story. "A real triumph". ("Sunday Independent"). "Joyously vivid performances". ("Sunday Independent"). "Will both satisfy fans and engage newcomers..."The Country Girls" is a world apart but provides a welcome peek at the past". ("Sunday Times"). "This is a great play by a great writer". (WLRfm). ""The Country Girls" captures Edna O'Brien's celebration of youthful innocence and her lamentation that with such innocence and idealism coexists an extraordinary vulnerability. O'Brien's adaptation transforms the novel dynamically. The play ...is physical, sensual and original". ("Irish Theatre Magazine"). "The Country Girls" premiered at the Garter Lane Theatre, Waterford, in October 2011, in produced by Red Kettle Theatre Company, in association with the Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland.
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(Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked t...)
Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, "The Country Girls", the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story. "A real triumph". ("Sunday Independent"). "Joyously vivid performances". ("Sunday Independent"). "Will both satisfy fans and engage newcomers..."The Country Girls" is a world apart but provides a welcome peek at the past". ("Sunday Times"). "This is a great play by a great writer". (WLRfm). ""The Country Girls" captures Edna O'Brien's celebration of youthful innocence and her lamentation that with such innocence and idealism coexists an extraordinary vulnerability. O'Brien's adaptation transforms the novel dynamically. The play ...is physical, sensual and original". ("Irish Theatre Magazine"). "The Country Girls" premiered at the Garter Lane Theatre, Waterford, in October 2011, in produced by Red Kettle Theatre Company, in association with the Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland.
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O'Brien, Edna was born on December 15, 1936 in County Clare, Ireland. Daughter of Michael and Lena (Cleary) O'B.
Convents, Pharmaceutical College, of Ireland.
Teacher creative writing City College, New York City.
(A classic title in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy -...)
(Love and its objects are the common elements in these eig...)
(The twenty-nine stories in this volume include all nine f...)
(The author of A Fanatic Heart offers a timely novel that ...)
(With dialogue that crackles and an engaging central chara...)
(A first rate collection of short stories from the critica...)
(An autobiographical tapestry; recollections of an Irish c...)
(It is a collection of short stories already published und...)
(In this homage to their homeland, acclaimed author Edna O...)
(Separated from her husband, Ellen finds herself living al...)
(A collection of twelve folk and fairy tales from Ireland,...)
( In these selections from twenty years of her best short...)
(Girls in Their Married Bliss continues the tale of Kate a...)
(Girls in Their Married Bliss continues the tale of Kate a...)
(Girls in Their Married Bliss continues the tale of Kate a...)
(A selection of 29 stories by the author of "Look At Me", ...)
(Collected here for the first time are stories spanning fi...)
( "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her...)
( "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her...)
(Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked t...)
(Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked t...)
(Edna O'Brien's most personal and most powerful novel in p...)
(Contains 12 short stories in which the main themes are in...)
(This book was the winner of the Frank O'Connor Internatio...)
(When the euphoria of Willa's first love faded, it is repl...)
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(Features giants and leprechauns, heroes and princesses. S...)
( A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. ...)
( A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. ...)
(A new collection of short stories.)
(Describes the celebration of St. Valentine's Day from pag...)
(London published Heron Books)
(London published Heron Books)
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(1994-lst (stated) Farrar. Octavo, hardcover. Fine (review...)
(The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba...)
(The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba...)
(The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba...)
(The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba...)
(The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba...)
(Book by Edna O'Brien)
(1st American ed)
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(“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...)
(“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...)
Author: (novels) The Country Girls, 1960, The Lonely Girl, 1962 (public as The Girl with Green Eyes, 1964), Girls in Their Married Bliss, 1964, August Is a Wicked Month, 1965, Casualties of Peace, 1966, The Love Object, 1968, A Pagan Place, 1970 (Yorkshire Post Book of Year award 1970), Zee and Company, 1971, Night, 1972, Johnny I Hardly Knew You, 1977, Seven Novels and Other Short Stories, 1978, The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue, 1986, The High Road, 1988, Time and Tide, 1992, House of Splendid Isolation, 1994. (nonfiction) Mother Ireland, 1976, Arabian Days, 1977, James and Nora: A Portrait of Joyce's Marriage, 1981, Vanishing Ireland, 1986. (poetry) On the Bone, 1989.(short stories) A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories, 1974, Mistress Reinhardt, and Other Stories, 1978, A Rose in the Heart, 1979, Returning: Tales, 1982, Stories of Joan of Arc, 1984, A Fanatic Heart, 1984, Lantern Slides, 1990 (Los Angeles Times Book award 1990). (children's books) The Dazzle, 1981, A Christmas Treat, 1982, The Expedition, 1982, The Rescue, 1983, Tales for the Telling: Irish Folk and Fairy Stories, 1986. (plays) A Cheap Bunch of Nice Flowers, 1962, A Pagan Place, 1970, The Gathering, 1974, Virginia, 1981, Home Sweet Home, 1984, Flesh and Blood, 1987, (adaptor) Madame Bovary, 1987.(screenplays) The Girl with Green Eyes, 1964, Three into Two Won't Go, 1969, X Y and Zee, 1972, The Wicked Lady, 1979, The Country Girls, 1983. (television plays) The Wedding Dress, 1963, The Keys of the Cafe, 1965, Give My Love to the Pilchards, 1965, Which of These Two Ladies Is He Married To?, 1967, Nothing's Ever Over, 1968, The Hard Way, 1980. (collections) An Edna O'Brien Reader, 1994.Editor: Some Irish Loving, 1979.
Reading, walking, dreaming.
Married Ernest Gebler, 1952 (divorced 1964). Children: Sasha, Carlos.