"When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose."

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About Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse was an American novelist, essayist, and longtime NPR literary critic and commentator.

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