Film: Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien story

Today head to Ireland, to discover a monument of contemporary literature in this country, Edna O'Brien, who died last year at the age of 93.

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story

‘F**k the plot! That is for precocious schoolboys. What matters is the imaginative truth.’ In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation, writing for The New Yorker, delivering provocative interviews, and authoring screenplays. Her success enraged her writer husband and made her a pariah in her native Ireland, where her books were banned and burned. She woul…

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story review

The glitzier details of Irish author Edna O’Brien’s life are given more space than her work in Sinéad O’Shea’s new documentary. But with anecdotes like these, how could you resist?

Film: Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien story

THE writer Edna O’Brien did not cease from exploration. Something led her from the world that she knew into ones with extraordinary possibilities. Sinéad O’Shea’s illuminating documentary, Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien...