Edna O’Brien and Edward St. Aubyn

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92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
in association with Irish Arts Center
present
Edna O’Brien and Edward St. Aubyn

Thursday, May 29 | 8 pm

At 92Y
Kaufmann Concert Hall
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY

Edna O’Brien and Edward St. Aubyn, two of the sharpest satirists writing today, come to the 92Y to read from their latest books.

After a lifetime of writing novels – some of which were banned in her native Ireland – Edna O’Brien tells all in a new memoir Country Girl, which details everything from her insular, difficult childhood to her Swinging Sixties romps with the likes of Princess Margaret and Marlon Brando. Philip Roth writes she “has made of her memories something of both precision and depth, a book that, letting us see her as she was, jumps with an all-consuming curiosity from one lucidly narrated event to another."

Edward St. Aubyn, known for his acclaimed novels about the Melrose family, including At Last and Mother’s Milk (short-listed for the 2006 Man Booker Prize) is back with a new novel Lost for Words, a witty, entertaining send-up that cuts to the quick of some of the deepest questions about the place of art in our celebrity-obsessed culture. Alan Hollinghurst writes he is “perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation.”