O’Brien published more than 20 books, most of them novels and story collections. Few so concretely and poetically challenged Ireland’s taboos on religion, sex and gender.
NEW YORK — Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast who found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House, has died. She was 93.
'The Country Girls' follows the lives of two young women — Caithleen Brady and Bridget Brennan journey from a rural convent to the risks and adventures of Dublin.O’Brien published more than 20 books, most of them novels and story collections, and would know fully what she called the “extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter.” Few so concretely and poetically challenged Ireland’s taboos on religion, sex and gender.
O’Brien would be recognized well beyond the world of books. The 1980s British band Dexy’s Midnight Runners” named her alongside Eugene O’Neill, Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde among others in the literary tribute “Burn It Down.” She dined at the White House with then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jack Nicholson and befriended Jacqueline Kennedy, whom she remembered as a “creature of paradoxes.
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