EOB
has said: The most honest relationship I've had with anyone has been with my children.
qtd. in
Eckley, Grace. Edna O’Brien. Bucknell University Press, 1974.
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According to O'Brien, she was not a normal mother in being a nice one, finding it possible to...
Literary responses
Edna O'Brien
EOB
won the 1970 Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award for this novel.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
102
In her monograph on O'Brien, Grace Eckley
compares aspects of its narrative with the patterns outlined by scholar Jessie Weston
Literary responses
Edna O'Brien
EOB
is known as a writer who appeals to academic, popular, and other audiences. Her work has been appreciated by contemporaries, including John Berger
, Mary Gordon
, and Claire Tomalin
.
Wheeler, Kathleen. A Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists. Blackwell, 1997.
205
The first...
Textual Features
Edna O'Brien
It is a free-association monologue written in the second person, about which EOB
has said, I hope it reads like a little trip to a lucid hallucination.
qtd. in
Eckley, Grace. Edna O’Brien. Bucknell University Press, 1974.
35
Grace Eckley
draws similarities between O'Brien's narrative...
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Texts
Eckley, Grace. Edna O’Brien. Bucknell University Press, 1974.
