by Edna O'Brien · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140021080
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«Girl with Green Eyes» is a novel by Edna O'Brien, published by Penguin Books in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Caithleen and Baba live in Dublin and try to leave their rural upbringing behind: they go out with men and seek excitement. Caithleen falls in love with an older film producer, separated and non-Catholic, which scandalises those around her. The novel combines comedy and melancholy and explores innocence, sexuality and the contradictions of the Ireland of the time.
Second volume of the «The Country Girls» trilogy; the novel was originally published in 1962 and this Penguin edition is from 1975.
For readers of Irish literature and modern classics, especially those interested in coming-of-age novels with a female protagonist.
Josephine Edna O'Brien was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.
