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Edna O'Brien

The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien

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March 2016, no. 379
Fiona Gruber reviews 'The Little Red Chairs' by Edna O’Brien

Edna O'Brien, in a recent interview, recalled being stuck for a plot. It was a filmmaker's remark about Tolstoy that sparked her latest novel, The Little Red Chairs: '[Charlie McCarthy] said, "Tolstoy said there are only two great stories in the world. A Man on a Journey, or A Stranger Comes to Town." And at that moment I thought, I've got it. I'm going to ...

Country Girl by Edna O’Brien & The Love Object by Edna O’Brien

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April 2014, no. 360
Morag Fraser reviews 'Country Girl' and 'The Love Object' by Edna O'Brien

In the 1960s she was deemed an Irish Jezebel. After the publication of her début novel, The Country Girls (1960), the local postmistress told her father that a fitting punishment would be for her to be kicked naked through the town.

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