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Postlethwaitethe reviews latest O'Brien novel

By Tom Vogel
October 2, 2006

Professor of English Diana Postlethwaite, the Boldt Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at St. Olaf, recently reviewed Irish novelist Edna O'Brien's latest novel, The Light of Evening, in the Star Tribune. Postlethwaite begins with a brief retrospective of O'Brien's prolific career, one that has been spent in exile from an Irish Catholic mother and Irish Catholic motherland. As for this novel, Postlethwaite says it is "grounded in the painful, rich truth that mother and motherland are inescapable; equal blessing and curse, both give voice to the 'mother tongue' of the woman writer."

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