A Pagan Place, by Edna O’Brien

Penguin Books, 1970. ISBN: 0140033416. Paperback. Good condition. Pages are yellowing.

In a diary-like stream of image, impression, expression, experience and bitter fact of life, Edna O’Brien catalogues the mundane but almost delicious agony of the poor Irish child confronted at every turn with abundant opportunities for a sensational, scandalous and steadfast descent into eternal fire and damnation.

‘The first eighty pages… constitute a reconstruction of a childhood experience which, so far as I know, is unique in the English language… (The book) is outstandingly memorable because its genius is the pain of memory’ -John Berger

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