
The Lonely Girl
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Narrated by:
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Edna O'Brien
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Edna O'Brien
Caithleen and Baba, first encountered in The Country Girls, are now living in Dublin, where they discuss men, drink gin, and try to look fast. Cait, in the pursuit of true love, becomes involved with the fanatically domineering Eugene Gaillard. Painful disillusion and occasional moments of bliss in her life make this a bittersweet tale, and it is told with all the perception and wit that is the hallmark of Edna O’Brien.
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I kept waiting for a peak moment but there wasn’t any.
The highlights of the story are to me:
-How the optimism in feminine characters are so well portrayed vs the shady negative masculine traits in the circle of men surrounding the protagonist’s life.
-The natural naiveness of the early feminine nature and self-deceiving.
A fine story, but melancholic
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O'Brien is fantastically vivid. Her descriptions of people, landscapes, and houses are full of detail and emotional resonance. I found this novel slightly more sentimental than the first and some of the narrator's romantic longings seemed overwrought. However, it is a powerful book overall.
O'Brien read this with so much feeling and urgency, the listener is transported. Impossible to imagine anyone reading it more compellingly.
Beautiful Sequel to The Country Girls
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Edna, please give me some closure!
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In The Lonely Girl our narrator is Kate who is now a young woman living in Dublin with her friend. They have left behind their small village home. Though the village mentality (nosy people spreading gossip about each other) comes through on it pages. The young women are loving city life and enjoy going out meeting young men, flirting, dancing and drinking. Kate meets Eugene, who is older than her and divorced. His wife is still alive so the church considers them to still be married. Kate moves in with Eugene. All of this is considered a sin. It is a 'path to moral damnation.'
O'Brien attacks the hypocrisy of the church at the time, but doesn't try to make Kate look too sweet and innocent. I like the honesty of it. She allows the reader to see where Kate errors. She allows us to see a girl who acts stupidly and is too naive. But whom among us hasn't. She was a young girl and O'Brien is showing us that these are her mistakes to make and she shouldn't be judged, tormented or shunned for them.
I spent my life until recently as a member of a very restrictive and judgmental church. And, despite the fact that I am 57 (the same age as this book) not a lot has changed in some church communities.
I enjoyed the book and will certainly go back to read the first book before moving on to the third.
the author does a great job as narrator
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