The High Road
By Edna O'Brien
1988
First Published
3.39
Average Rating
214
Number of Pages
First edition hard cover with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition for their age. General shelf and handling wear, including light scoring to rear DJ cover, with light creasing to cover, edges, corners and folds.. Notable tanning to pageblock, leading into page edges. Boards are in fine condition, pages tightly bound, content unmarked. CN
Avg Rating
3.39
Number of Ratings
147
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
27%
3 STARS
35%
2 STARS
16%
1 STARS
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Author
Edna O'Brien
Author · 37 books
Edna O’Brien is an award-winning Irish author of novels, plays, and short stories, has been hailed as one of the greatest chroniclers of the female experience in the twentieth century. She is the 2011 recipient of the Frank O’Connor Prize, awarded for her short story collection Saints and Sinners. She has also received, among other honors, the Irish PEN Award for Literature, the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, and a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Literary Academy. Her 1960 debut novel, The Country Girl, was banned in her native Ireland for its groundbreaking depictions of female sexuality. Notable works also include August Is a Wicked Month (1965), A Pagan Place (1970), Lantern Slides (1990), and The Light of Evening (2006). O’Brien lives in London.
