Alan Cheuse - When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in...

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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

Alan Cheuse

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Als Edna O'Briens erster Roman "The Country Girls" im Jahr 1960 erschien, warfen ihre Familie und ihre Nachbarn in dem kleinen irischen Dorf, in dem sie geboren wurde, Kopien in ein Lagerfeuer, das ausdrücklich zu diesem schrecklichen Zweck errichtet wurde.

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