Summary of Edna O'Brien's Country Girl

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was in Dublin in the late 1940s, and I was blown away by the city. I was ravenous for food, life, and stories. I stood in awe of the Gresham Hotel, which was built in 1809 to celebrate the victory of Nelson over Napoleon in the Battle of Trafalgar.
#2 I was proud to be going to the chemist’s shop with such dignity. I was wearing my best clothes, and I was sure that I would meet poets there.
#3 I had to dismount because of the noise and confusion, and I remember the three unanswered letters from my mother and the orange papier-mâché bowl with bills and Mass cards.
#4 Dublin was full of stories, some funny and spry, and sometimes gruesome. There were the old codgers at street corners dying for talk, reeling off the names and nicknames of legendary characters, Zozimus, Johnny Forty-Coats, Paddy Bones Sweeney.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669376026
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Edna O'Brien's Country Girl
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was in Dublin in the late 1940s, and I was blown away by the city. I was ravenous for food, life, and stories. I stood in awe of the Gresham Hotel, which was built in 1809 to celebrate the victory of Nelson over Napoleon in the Battle of Trafalgar.

#2

I was proud to be going to the chemist’s shop with such dignity. I was wearing my best clothes, and I was sure that I would meet poets there.

#3

I had to dismount because of the noise and confusion, and I remember the three unanswered letters from my mother and the orange papier-mâché bowl with bills and Mass cards.

#4

Dublin was full of stories, some funny and spry, and sometimes gruesome. There were the old codgers at street corners dying for talk, reeling off the names and nicknames of legendary characters, Zozimus, Johnny Forty-Coats, Paddy Bones Sweeney.

#5

I got to know the customers in the chemist’s shop, their ailments and their money worries. I would ask for tick until payday at the weekend. The boys and men from the nearby deaf-and-dumb institution would come and just stand, striving for speech.

#6

The archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid, was the leader of the Irish Catholic Church. He was obsessed with keeping Ireland free from paganism and modern aberrations, and he used his powers to do so.

#7

I had saved only enough money to get a pair of gold sleepers, believing the words of the song, And if your love wears golden earrings, she belongs to you. I went to see Dr. Masterson, who pierced my ears.

#8

I was going home from a different station, Kingsbridge of the bitter winds, and I had the same old tweed coat with a gentleman’s scarf of white silk with sumptuous fringing. I was flustered, having read only the first forty pages of O’Casey’s autobiography.