My friend, the writer, Polly Devlin wrote:
...I loved Susanna's book.. she is a master of prose,
and there's always a slightly sadistic undertow to her delicacy… she understands the psychic wound.. I thought it an exemplary
work…an important social document and an imaginative work of the highest
order...she got the the Irish girl in an extraordinary way-- Kate
O'Brien wrote a novel in the 50's -- Mary Lavelle -- about a beautiful Irish
girl - a governess--caught up in events in Spain which had some of the
same qualities but O'brien was Irish to her core (lesbian, which the Irish
didn't like, (well, like is not the word, they were incredulous) so her books
were banned. Hey ho. But then so were Edna"s…..). Joan Didion once--or maybe more
than once--- has said that style is character …and what a character Susanna
is-- no-one like her.
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