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01987aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 231269DC2CCD11E888DF426797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180321010011 008 171115t20171986nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0374537356 020 $a 9780374537357 040 $d SILO 043 $a e-ie--- 082 04 $a 823.914 $2 23 100 1 $a O'Brien, Edna, $e author. 245 14 $a The country girls : $b three novels and an epilogue / $c Edna O'Brien ; with an introduction by Eimear McBride. 250 $a Paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2017. 300 $a xvi, 532 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a FSG Classics. 500 $a "This omnibus edition, with a new epilogue by the author, was originally published in 1986 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as The country girls trilogy and epilogue."--Title page verso. 505 00 $g Epilogue. $t Girls in their married bliss -- $g The $t Lonely girl -- $t Girls in their married bliss -- $g Epilogue. 520 $a "The country girls are Caithleen "Kate" Brady and Bridget "Baba" Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin, they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith, bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong reasons, betraying for the wrong reasons, fighting in their separate ways against the overwhelming wave of expectations forced upon "girls" of every era."--Back cover. 651 0 $a Ireland $x Social life and customs $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z Ireland $v Fiction. 700 1 $a McBride, Eimear, $e writer of introduction. 830 0 $a FSG classics. 941 $a 2 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015124.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20180321010350.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=231269DC2CCD11E888DF426797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search