August Is a Wicked Month
A Novel
by Edna O'Brien
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Pub Date Apr 03 2012 | Archive Date Jun 13 2013
Description
Eschewing her stale life in London, one woman embarks on a journey of independence and sexual liberation on the French Riviera
Separated from her husband, and with her young son away on a camping trip, Ellen decides to flee her lonely London home, naively pursuing "a jaunt into iniquity" along France's Mediterranean coast. But will she find the escape she longs for, or the entrapment she so deeply fears?
In August Is a Wicked Month, Edna O'Brien's lyric, languid prose creates a character at once ordinary and mythic, struggling to forge her own path not as a wife, mother, mistress, or lover-but as simply, assuredly herself.
Advance Praise
“A serious and moving piece of work.” -The New York Times
“O’Brien . . . shares the earthiness, the rawness, the chiseled prose, the scars of maturity. She is a consummate stylist and, to my mind, the most gifted woman now writing fiction in English.” -Philip Roth
Available Editions
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