Lisa Colletta is assistant professor of English at Babson College. She is the author of Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel and the editor of Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to His Mother. Maureen O'Connor teaches English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Language is an extraordinary thing. It is more extraordinary than any nuclear weapon. - Edna O'Brien, in a 1995 interview with Salon.com ""Readers of Edna O'Brien's lyrical fiction can discover or revisit in Wild Colonial Girl the favorites - Kate and Baba, the mother and the Virgin Mary, Sister Imelda, ancient and modern Ireland, Breege and the Irish Revolutionary soldier - all in a search for self-hood amid sexual conflict, ambient guilt, and social paradoxes. Irish author Edna O'Brien has long merited this breakthrough scholarly study."" - Grace Eckley, editor of Newstead

Lisa Colletta is assistant professor of English at Babson College. She is the author of Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel and the editor of Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to His Mother. Maureen O'Connor teaches English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Language is an extraordinary thing. It is more extraordinary than any nuclear weapon. - Edna O'Brien, in a 1995 interview with Salon.com ""Readers of Edna O'Brien's lyrical fiction can discover or revisit in Wild Colonial Girl the favorites - Kate and Baba, the mother and the Virgin Mary, Sister Imelda, ancient and modern Ireland, Breege and the Irish Revolutionary soldier - all in a search for self-hood amid sexual conflict, ambient guilt, and social paradoxes. Irish author Edna O'Brien has long merited this breakthrough scholarly study."" - Grace Eckley, editor of Newstead

Lisa Colletta is assistant professor of English at Babson College. She is the author of Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel and the editor of Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to His Mother. Maureen O'Connor teaches English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Language is an extraordinary thing. It is more extraordinary than any nuclear weapon. - Edna O'Brien, in a 1995 interview with Salon.com ""Readers of Edna O'Brien's lyrical fiction can discover or revisit in Wild Colonial Girl the favorites - Kate and Baba, the mother and the Virgin Mary, Sister Imelda, ancient and modern Ireland, Breege and the Irish Revolutionary soldier - all in a search for self-hood amid sexual conflict, ambient guilt, and social paradoxes. Irish author Edna O'Brien has long merited this breakthrough scholarly study."" - Grace Eckley, editor of Newstead