"The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue" is an absolutely engaging saga that is, thematically, about opposites - opposite dispositions and opposite views of life, the survivor versus the ungovernable romantic. It charts unflinchingly the pattern of life, for women, from the high spirits of youth to the chill of middle age, from hope to despair. It is both painful and hilarious.
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"The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue" is an absolutely engaging saga that is, thematically, about opposites - opposite dispositions and opposite views of life, the survivor versus the ungovernable romantic. It charts unflinchingly the pattern of life, for women, from the high spirits of youth to the chill of middle age, from hope to despair. It is both painful and hilarious.
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Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. PRICE CLIPPED. SMALL PENCIL PRICE IN UPPER RIGHT OF FIRST FREE PAGE. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Good. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages foxed, but absent any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very Good. Good+ Dust Jacket. Very good hardcover with good+ DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Stated 1st printing. Light shelfwear to book. Binding is sound and sturdy, text also very good. Clipped DJ has age-toning and minor shelfwear, rubbing. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping.
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First Edition, stated first printing 1986 with no additional printings noted, in near fine / very good condition. The pages are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Boards are solid, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket is clean, undamaged, and protected by a mylar cover. Inscription to previous owner on the FFEP. The book is otherwise in excellent condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 531 p. Audience: General/trade. Ships w signature confirmation. Stated 1st printing flatsigned by author on title pg. 3 " surface scratch and light soil/tanning on dj, bottom corners bumped, small surface tear from label removal on back pastedown, a little soil/foxing on edge, else text clean, binding tight.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First Omnibus Edition with a "new epilogue by the author." Tall, thick 8vo (235 x 147mm): [8], 532pp. Publisher's French blue quarter-cloth over lighter blue paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket priced $18.95. Inscribed by O'Brien to American poet Daniel Hoffman, poet laureate of the United States and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and dated "Dec. 2nd, 1986" (the year of publication). Fine, square, and tightly bound; lightly read (if at all). Brilliant jacket without a hint of fading. O'Brien's momentous debut, banned in Ireland because of sexual content, "charts the progress of two young Irish girls, Kate and Baba, as they escape their rural home place for the relative cosmopolitanism of Dublin. It is no accident that, in the first novel, a turning point in Kate's development is marked by her acquisition of a copy of Joyce's Dubliners [Joyce was hugely influential in O'Brien's writing life, and in 1999 she wrote a biography of him ]....When asked late in his life if he would ever return to Ireland, Joyce gave the famously enigmatic reply, 'Have I ever left it? ', and Edna O'Brien's relationship with her home country is complicated in ways that are similarly fraught and complex." (The Literary Encyclopedia) Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Extremely frank and insightful look into the social mores of Ireland in the 1960's. A courageous book in its day (banned in Ireland for a time, as many well written Irish works were) and still relevant, especially for anyone interested in the history of the Republic of Ireland. Excellent well-written narrative.
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