For all the noise surrounding this turbulent coming-of-age story - its fevered three-week genesis, its banning by the censors and burning by the outraged priesthood - its immense literary merit has not been eclipsed by its notoriety.
The Country Girls tells a timeless story of the thirst for independence and emancipation - a song of innocence and experience.
Like Woolf, it draws on the idea of a self-consciousness that is capacious and surprising, expressing itself through linguistic invention and caprice.
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