Edna O’Brien bola jednou z najväčších kronikárok ženskej skúsenosti 20. storočia. Jej diela, vrátane románov, poviedok a hier, sa vyznačujú prenikavým pohľadom na intímne životy svojich postáv. O’Brien sa nebojácne zaoberala témami ženskej sexuality a spoločenskými obmedzeniami, čím si vyslúžila uznanie aj kontroverzie. Jej jedinečný štýl a hlboké pochopenie ľudskej psychiky z nej robia nezabudnuteľný hlas pre čitateľov.
The acclaimed author describes her convent school education in Ireland, the scandal that ensued upon the publication of her first novel, and the wild 1960s parties that introduced her to people from all walks of life.
This novel tells the story of two Irish girls, Caithleen Brady and Bridget Brennan, and their escape from a life filled with countryside and convent to the allure and the crowds, lights and noise of Dublin.
O'Brien's latest novel charts the quick and critical demise of relations between "the warring sons of warring sons" fighting over inherited land in the countryside of western Ireland.
If one pairing of author and subject can, on its own, prove the unique merit of the Penguin Lives dynamic, it is Edna O'Brien writing on James Joyce. Of the great works of the twentieth century, his Ulysses stands alone as the groundbreaking, immeasurably influential masterpiece. Edna O'Brien, award-winning novelist and chronicler of Irish life in our day, approaches James Joyce as only a fellow countryman can in her beautiful, poetic rendering of his life. From his early days as the rambunctious Jesuit school student, one of ten children, through his flight to Europe and the success, love and despair he would experience there, to his final, frustrated days as "a poor old man in a long overcoat, an eyepatch and a stick, stones in his pocket to keep off marauding dogs, " O'Brien's deft, gentle, inciteful prose captures the essence of this troubled literary master.
