A Pagan Place

A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. Here she returns to that uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home and writes not only of a life there—of the child becoming a woman—but of the Irish experience out of which that life arises—perhaps more po [...]
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A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. Here she returns to that uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home and writes not only of a life there—of the child becoming a woman—but of the Irish experience out of which that life arises—perhaps more pointedly than in any of her other works. This is the Ireland of country villages and barley fields, of druids in the woods, of unknown babies in the womb, of mischievous girls and Tans with guns. Ireland has marked Edna O'Brien's life and work with unmistakable color and depth, and here she recreates her homeland with a singular grace and intensity.Author Biography: Edna O'Brien is the author of eighteen works of fiction, including DOWN BY THE RIVER, HOUSE OF SPLENDID ISOLATION, TIME AND TIDE, and LANTERN SLIDES,which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her book about James Joyce was published in 1999 and excerpted in THE NEW YORKER. An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was born and grew up in Ireland and has lived in London for many years.