Edna O'Brien, iconoclastic giant of Irish literature who penned The Country Girls, dead at 93

Edna O'Brien published more than 20 books, most of them novels and story collections, and would know fully what she called the "extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter."

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