A Pagan Place

A newly reissued edition of this haunting, poetic coming-of-age novel from “one of the great writers...in the English-speaking world” ( The New York Times ) “O’Brien’s evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on the living.” —Paul Gray, Time “O’Brien brings together the earthy and the delicately poetic: she has the soul of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf.” —Ray Sawhill, Newsweek In A Pagan Place , Edna O’Brien returns to Ireland, the uniquely wonderful