Minerva, ChichesterO'Brien has revised her 2011 stage adaptation of her evocative novel about two friends who move from rural Ireland to DublinRitually burned in the grounds of her local parish church, Edna O'Brien's 1960 novel not only offended the clerical authorities but also gave a vividly impressionistic picture of the constrictions of Irish life. With its obvious debt to James Joyce, it was O'Brien's Portrait o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PM on June 15, 2017