Casualties of Peace

Casualties of Peace
First edition (UK)
Author	Edna O'Brien
Cover artist	Rory McEwen
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Jonathan Cape (UK) Simon & Schuster (US)
Publication date	1966 (UK), 1967 (US)
Media type	Print
Pages	192
ISBN	0-224-60216-0

Casualties of Peace, published in 1966, is Irish writer Edna O'Brien's fifth novel.

Dedication

Casualties of Peace is dedicated to 'Rita Tushingham, whose coat it is'. Rita Tushington starred in the 1963 film, Girl with Green Eyes which was written by Edna O'Brien; a fur coat plays a crucial role in the plot of the novel.

Plot introduction

Set in London it concerns Willa McCord, an artist in glass (who is starting an affair with Auro, a married Jamaican) and her best friend and housekeeper Patsy (who lives with her violent husband Tom) Patsy decides to leave Tom but her plans are thrown into disarray when she finds she is pregnant...

Reception

Kirkus Reviews is positive: 'Edna O'Brien manages to commit the reader and transmit a sense of life in a remarkable fashion. Few writers achieve this much'.^[1]
The New York Times was mixed, praising the authors 'extraordinary style': 'The novel pulsates with her racy, exuberant, nervous prose, a prose that often achieves the intensity of a unique shorthand' but then identifies a conflict between this style and the structure of the novel as being 'especially damaging'.^[2]

Publication history

1966, UK, Jonathan Cape, ISBN 0-224-60216-0, Pub date Nov 1966, Hardback
1967, US, Simon & Schuster, Hardback
1968, UK, Penguin, Paperback
1970, UK, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-002875-7, Pub date 28 May 1970, Paperback
1970, US, Ballantine, ISBN 0-345-01977-6, Paperback

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References

↑ "CASUALTIES OF PEACE by Edna O'Brien". Kirkusreviews.com. Retrieved 2012-08-26.
↑ "Deadly Chain of Events by Eleanor Dienstag". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
↑ www.fantasticfiction.co.uk Retrieved 2012-11-28.

Works by Edna O'Brien

Novels	The Country Girls (1960) Girl with Green Eyes (1962) Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964) August Is a Wicked Month (1965) Casualties of Peace (1966) A Pagan Place (1970) Zee & Co. (1971) Night (1972) Johnny I Hardly Knew You (1977) The High Road (1988) Time and Tide (1992) House of Splendid Isolation (1994) Down by the River (1996) Wild Decembers (1999) In the Forest (2002) The Light of Evening (2006)

Short story collections	The Love Object and Other Stories (1968) A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories (1974) Mrs Reinhardt and Other Stories (1978) Some Irish Loving (1979) Returning (1982) A Fanatic Heart (1985) Lantern Slides (1990) Saints and Sinners (2011)

Drama	A Pagan Place Virginia: The Life of Virginia Woolf Family Butchers Triptych Haunted (2009)

Non-fiction	Mother Ireland (1976) James Joyce (1999) Byron in Love (2009) Country Girl (2012)

Poetry	On the Bone (1989)

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