O’Brien, Edna. Wild Decembers. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
prelims
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Zadie Smith | These essays are a paradox: colloquial and popular in their enthusiasms, effortlessly learned in their handling. Smith is highly personal as she recounts her cultural discoveries: of a biracial chareacter claiming liberty of creative freedom... |
Textual Features | Diana Athill | Athills remarks how much less she was paid than her male equivalents. All publishing was run by many badly-paid women and a few much better-paid men: an imbalance that women were, of course, aware of... |
Reception | Anita Brookner | This book provoked an unusual article from journalist Mark Lawson
, centred less on Brookner than on his own response. I have mocked her dessicated sentences, characterless protagonists and action-free narratives, he wrote. The gist... |
Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | The jacket of Wild Decembers quotes Philip Roth
calling EOBa consummate stylist and, to my mind, the most gifted woman now writing fiction in English. O’Brien, Edna. Wild Decembers. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. prelims |
Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | |
Friends, Associates | Edna O'Brien | After her move to London, her successful literary career made EOB
a friend of such writers as Mordecai Richler
, Philip Roth
, Antonia Fraser
, and Harold Pinter
. Bennett, Ronan. “The Country Girl’s Home Truths”. Guardian Unlimited. 1 |