#Edna O'Brien

[fallensapphires]

Holidays: St. Patrick's Day

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

[strathshepard]

Mast Books

[ecoamerica]

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[greenapricot]

“It can't be them!”

“The arrangement was to be here at nine with the vase.”

“It's nine, and they appear to have a vase-sized box.”

“Can you see these two killing Yelland?”

“Perhaps very slowly.”

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[aranazo]

Girls in Their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien with a cover by Alan Aldridge.

[sometimesiwastetimehere]

[drinkersandthinkers]

"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." ~ Edna O'Brien

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

My 2023 TBR (5/12) 

These are all classics I have yet to read (other than Wuthering Heights- this is one of my new copies). I included this copy of Wuthering Heights because I want to reread it next year since I might be doing my master’s thesis on it.

[holyfigtree]

night, edna o'brien

[davidhudson]

Happy 92nd, Edna O’Brien.

1976 photo by Mayotte Magnus.

[elizabethanism]

"Flaubert claimed that we each have a royal room in our hearts into which only very few are admitted."

Edna O'Brien

[les-toupies-h]

« L'écriture, c'est comme un iceberg, avec un dixième émergé. La partie émergée, c'est le premier roman. Ensuite, il y a le deuxième, le troisième... A chaque roman, on va plus profond. » Edna O'Brien

[ecoamerica]

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[punk-jules]

some snippets of my upcoming artist's book: love approached from a teenager's point of view

[pablolf]

29 December 7.45pm Edna O’Brien. In four hours or so, Edna tells us tale after tale of Beckett, Pinter – “When I see him on Monday he will say immediately: ‘You have seen The Caretaker, of course’ – ‘No, I have been away’ – ‘Well, then you have seen Betrayal.’ The trouble is writers write from pain and Harold has closed up all his wounds, so all he can write now are these small things.”

Alan Rickman’s secret showbiz diaries

[sweetnessofmelancholy]

She had been in love more than once, gloriously, breathlessly in love, but it was the last attachment that had been the deepest. Such happiness. The long walks at weekends, scaling mountains, she would never have done alone. She felt safe and confident next to him, and indeed if she missed her footing, as she often did, he was there to catch her and plant a kiss. By the open fire she read poetry to him, read from a book of foreign poets with the English translation on the opposite page, and they swore that they would learn languages, that she would learn French and he Spanish and they would compete in their adopted tongues. In one letter she was rash enough to tell him that she would walk water to reach him and he replied in kind. It was reciprocal.

His letter breaking it off was wedged half in and half out of her letterbox.

Edna O’Brien, excerpt from “Send My Roots Rain,” from Saints and Sinners

[annacswenson]

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"O’Brien has long been interested in how women are punished for their sins, or suffer for their innocence—the divergent readings often dependent on who is doing the judging." —James Wood for the New Yorker, on Edna O'Brien's The Little Red Chairs

[drinkersandthinkers]

“The Irish have a way of seeing things that is unique, and that is what makes them such great storytellers.” ~ Edna O'Brien