O'Brien, Edna
Summary: Traduction d'une biographie publiée en 1999 aux Etats-Unis. Edna O'Brien est une importante romancière irlandaise. Son approche admirative vise à tracer un portrait à la fois "grandiose et intime" de son compatriote. L'accent est mis sur les amitiés, les révoltes et l'exil volontaire de Joyce. Autre biographie recommandée par E. O'Brien: ##James Joyce## par Richard Ellmann (Gallimard, 2 tomes)....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fides 2001
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Summary: "I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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Summary: Josie, a widow living in a remote Irish village, finds her solitude violated by an escaped IRA terrorist and in the end they reach an errie sympathy and understanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1994
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Summary: Collects short stories depicting restless, searching people set in Dublin, London, and New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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Summary: "Moving from Ireland to London and then to The Hague, the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: Disgraced when her village's mysterious healer, an Eastern European immigrant whom she loved and begged to help her have a child, is arrested as a war criminal, Fidelma flees to England to take migrant work, only to confront her nemesis at a tribunal in The Hague.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Summary: Warring Irish sons Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler come to terms when Joseph claims recently inherited acreage on what Mick considers his property.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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Summary: The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2015
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Summary: Michen O'Kane, who was born with a killer instinct, unleashes his murderous rage along the countryside of western Ireland, drawing innocent victims into the forest of his twisted fantasies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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Summary: From her Dublin hospital bed, an ailing elderly woman recalls the important events and people of her life, from her emigration to America in the 1920s, to her Irish marriage, to motherhood, as she awaits a visit from her estranged daughter, Eleanora.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1970
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2000