Watching Dragons Mate
Patricia Lockwood: Edna O’Brien’s ‘Girl’, 5 December 2019
“... by a swimming pool while she is wearing a pair of water-wings branded with the legend nivea cream. Marguerite Duras buys her suppositories; Shirley MacLaine reads her palm and declares that she has been ‘mother and prostitute, many times’. It does not, in life or literature, get better than this. (‘Edna won’t reveal which passage of her eventful ... ”