Edna O'Brien's haunting spectre of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorable characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts her (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind in a narrative voice of blistering, radical originality.
Part of a special series curated by Roy Claire Potter on occasion of the upcoming launch of The Wastes, published this June by Bookworks.
faber, 2014
originally published 1972
Edna O’Brien (born December 15, 1930, Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland) is an Irish novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter
