A Pagan Place by Edna O'Brien

A Pagan Place

Edna O'Brien

224 pages • first pub 1971 (view editions)

fiction literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. Here she returns to that uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home and writes not only of a life there--of the child becoming a woman--but of the Irish experience out o...

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Community Reviews

3.62
based on 84 reviews

Moods

reflective: 92%

dark: 53%

emotional: 53%

challenging: 46%

sad: 30%

mysterious: 23%

funny: 15%

adventurous: 7%

tense: 7%

Pace

7% of readers chose fast
15% of readers chose medium
76% of readers chose slow
fast
medium
slow

Plot or character driven?

9% of readers chose Plot
9% of readers chose A mix
81% of readers chose Character
Plot
A mix
Character

Strong character development?

33% of readers chose Yes
66% of readers chose Complicated
Yes
Complicated

Loveable characters?

11% of readers chose Yes
66% of readers chose Complicated
22% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

Diverse cast of characters?

12% of readers chose Yes
87% of readers chose No
Yes
No

Flaws of characters a main focus?

75% of readers chose Yes
12% of readers chose Complicated
12% of readers chose No
Yes
Complicated
No

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