SOURCE: "'That Trenchant Childhood Route'?: Quest in Edna O'Brien's Novels," in Éire-Ireland, Vol. XIV, No. 1, Spring, 1979, pp. 74-83.
In the following essay, Snow explores the "journey" O'Brien's heroines make "to reclaimed innocence" in her novels.
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