August is a Wicked Month

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August is a Wicked Month

August is a Wicked Month

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A new voice, not the same Kate of The Country Girls trilogy, a slightly older but much more mature woman. If you want to see how a masterful author can develop a character so real seeming that you want to befriend, help, and guide her, this book does that and more. They goto a burlesque show and the flirting and innuendos continue but Ellen is really only interested in the actor.

She is the 2011 recipient of the Frank O’Connor Prize, awarded for her short story collection Saints and Sinners. Hey, I thought, it would be way cheaper to read a story of wanton lasciviousness than to get an infected belly button (and a lot less painful, too).It’s excellent… I liked the cool restrained style of the prose and was stunned by the revelation that changes the whole feel of the story. Given the significant esteem in which O'Brien appears to be held, I will be intrigued to read others' views as it seems the book must have powers to touch other people in ways that just didn't resonate with me. The language has a slow, langurious quality to it, in which everything seems to be happening in the half-realized manner of a dream, interspersed with the frenetic quality of extreme loneliness. Her estranged husband and child go on a camping holiday to Wales and rather than sit around stuffy London, Ellen books a flight to the Côte d'Azure, looking for sex—pure and simple.

The story is a tragedy in the true sense of the word, but if you’re in the mood to catch up on literature you’ve missed, you can do a lot worse than August is a Wicked Month. The copyright page states first published 1965 indicating the first edition, with copyright Edna O¿Brien 1965. There are at least two sentences like this that refers to the bed's performance of the man as being wicked.

It’s a relatively bleak tale, punctuated by moments of fleeting happiness, joy, excitement and danger, as Ellen seeks solace from her loneliness and emotional isolation. I received a Penguin Classic, and I am pretty sure it was available to the seller to choose from, so I was a bit irked that I did not get that same cover. Not all men look like Daniel Craig, you're not always the prettiest one in the room and then even harsher news from home breaks the last threads of the spell and before you know it, you've tried to shag half the men in the resort to no avail, suffered a massive personal tragedy, financially ruined yourself and the only souvenir you're taking home is a massive overdraft and suspected syphilis. August may be a wicked month for Miss Edna o'brien [sic] but it's one of the busiest in the calendar for local fashion watchers.



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