A Pagan Place : A Novel by Edna O'Brien

A Pagan Place : A Novel by Edna O'BrienA newly reissued edition of this haunting, poetic coming of age novel from "one of the great writers in the English speaking world" (The New York Times) "O'Brien's evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on the living." Paul Gray, Time "O'Brien brings together the earthy and the delicately poetic: she has the soul of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." Ray Sawhill, Newsweek In A Pagan Place, Edna O'Brien

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