Girl With Green Eyes
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By Edna O'Brien
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A classic title in Edna O’Brien’s Country Girls Trilogy – the second volume From eccentric Joanna’s boarding house, predatory Baba roams Dublin looking for men to give her a good time – and dragging with her a reluctant Cait, worrying about her figure and wanting to talk about books. Then she meets dark, long-faced Eugene Gaillard, a film director, and for a while Cait’s romantic dreams seem to be fulfilled. But Eugene Gaillard is a Protestant divorce, and when Cait’s drunkard father gets to hear of it, he summons a lynch mob’ Steering expertly between high romance, outright farce and the blend of them that is reality, Girl with Green Eyes is an original and joyful story of the gateway to adulthood.
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Vol 2 of Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy not surprisingly continues the story of the 2 women we met in Vol 1. O'Brien calls out the sexism and misogyny in Ireland at the time (1960's) and also the superstition and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church. It's easy to read and the story is quite simple and straightforward but the social history of Ireland at the time is interesting. I'm also left wondering whether that much has changed, except that it's no longer shocking to write about it.
