Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls gave voice to Irish women's interior lives and erotic adventures, challenging societal norms and being met with bans and criticism, yet also celebrated by prominent figures like Eimear McBride and Philip Roth.
O'Brien's writing delved into topics of love and loss, where she saw love as her great subject, replacing religion in her sense of fervor, even though she sometimes faced backlash for it.
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