Casualties of Peace
by Edna O'Brien
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I feel like this needs to be set against the background of what was written in the sixties to give context to what felt flawed to me. Two of the characters, Patsy and Tom resonate as depressingly real, they are entirely believable. I did not find the others so. It was also alarming that O'Brien is willing to call an abusive man who murders Willa in a case of mistaken identity 'good'. Maybe bashing and raping one's wife was judged differently way back then. But surely not that differently.
Probably worth reading, it certainly shouldn't have been entirely forgotten, as is the case judging by the lack of attention on goodreads. I expect if another of hers fell my way I'd give it a whirl.
Probably worth reading, it certainly shouldn't have been entirely forgotten, as is the case judging by the lack of attention on goodreads. I expect if another of hers fell my way I'd give it a whirl.
I feel like this needs to be set against the background of what was written in the sixties to give context to what felt flawed to me. Two of the characters, Patsy and Tom resonate as depressingly real, they are entirely believable. I did not find the others so. It was also alarming that O'Brien is willing to call an abusive man who murders Willa in a case of mistaken identity 'good'. Maybe bashing and raping one's wife was judged differently way back then. But surely not that differently.
Probably worth reading, it certainly shouldn't have been entirely forgotten, as is the case judging by the lack of attention on goodreads. I expect if another of hers fell my way I'd give it a whirl.
Probably worth reading, it certainly shouldn't have been entirely forgotten, as is the case judging by the lack of attention on goodreads. I expect if another of hers fell my way I'd give it a whirl.
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Writer Edna O'Brien was born in Clare County, Ireland, in 1930 and attended Pharmaceutical College in Dublin. O'Brien, winner of the Kingsley Amis Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Price and the European Literature Prize, has written short stories, novels, plays, television plays and screenplays. She has also written for such magazines as show more Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal and The New Yorker. (Bowker Author Biography) Edna O'Brien's previous works of fiction include "Down by the River", "House of Splendid Isolation", "Time & Tide", & "Lantern Slides", which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her book about James Joyce was published in 1999 & excerpted in "The New Yorker". An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, O'Brien grew up in Ireland & now lives in London. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Casualties of Peace
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- 1966
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