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Plume
December 2002
On Sale: November 26, 2002
208 pages
ISBN: 0452283752
EAN: 9780452283756
Paperback (reprint)
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Fiction Family Life
The New York Times Book Review hailed The Country
Girls, the first book in Edna O'Brien's critically
acclaimed trilogy, as "Powerful. Intelligent. Ironic. A
treasure." The Lonely Girl continues the
story of childhood friends Kate and Baba, now both
twenty-one, as they navigate the rocky, sometimes
treacherous pathways of urban life. With hearts as big as
Dublin, and hopes as bright as new pennies, they move
bravely and eagerly toward the future. Yet the two couldn't
be more different. Kate toils in a grocery shop and lives
out her romantic fantasies in books. Baba entertains more
earthbound dreams. Their principles—and friendship—are
tested when Kate meets a dashing married man, and discovers
the exhilaration of passion...and the consequences of
falling in love. A novel that combines the teeming
ethos of big-city life with the ambitions and yearnings of
two emerging young women, The Lonely Girl is a
stellar achievement from one of Ireland's finest
storytellers.
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