Ebook {Epub PDF} Down by the River by Edna OBrien

Edna O'Brien (Author) out of 5 stars. 31 ratings. ISBN ISBN Why is ISBN important? ISBN. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The digit and digit formats both work.4/5(31). Expatriate Irish writer O'Brien (House of Splendid Isolation, , etc.) offers one of the most ferocious indictments of Gaelic life and culture since The Playboy of the Western World. The case several years ago of an Irish girl who was barred by judicial decree from leaving the country to procure an abortion was bound to work its way into fiction, and O'Brien was probably the likeliest to pick it up.  · Down by the River is a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of Girl—“one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s Weekend Edition). Set in the author’s native Ireland, a powerful and passionate novel about a young girl who becomes pregnant by her father—a situation made worse when it becomes fodder for the gossip mill of church, state, and the ISBN

Down by the River is loosely based on an incident that occurred in involving a fourteen-year-old girl, pregnant, it was thought, as the result of rape. Yet Edna O'Brien's novel is much. Edna O'Brien (Author) out of 5 stars. 31 ratings. ISBN ISBN Why is ISBN important? ISBN. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The digit and digit formats both work. Nearly 14 and pregnant, the heroine of Edna O'Brien's new novel becomes the center of a raging conflict. Read the First Chapter. DOWN BY THE RIVER. By Edna O'Brien. pp. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux. $ ''Out in the country things get very murky,'' says Mary, the protagonist of ''Down by the River,'' Edna O'Brien's forlorn, unsparing.

In her first novel, THE COUNTRY GIRLS (), Edna O’Brien attacked the way Irish women are treated in a male-dominated society. In DOWN BY THE RIVER, however, O’Brien makes it clear that. Down by the River. Inspired by a highly controversial incident that took place in Ireland a few years ago, O'Brien's latest novel (after House of Splendid Isolation) is a riveting and resonating. Down by the River Paperback – April 1, by. Edna O'Brien (Author) › Visit Amazon's Edna O'Brien Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Edna O'Brien (Author) out of 5 stars. 31 ratings.