Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2019 |
| Seiten | 192 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,2 cm |
| B-format | |
| Gewicht | 140 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0241354420 |
| EAN | 9780241354421 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24135442EA |
An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Tóibín
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In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Tóibín takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and examines their earliest influences: their fathers.
With his inimitable wit and sensitivity, Tóibín introduces us to Wilde Senior, the philandering doctor whose libel case prefigured that of his son; the elder Yeats, an impoverished artist who never finished a painting; and to John Stanislaus Joyce, the hard-drinking, storytelling father of James, who couldn't feed his own family.
This is an illuminating study of how each of these men cast a long shadow not only over the lives of their famous sons, but over the works for which they are celebrated and cherished.
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'Astonishing to read. Tóibín has a hawk-like eye for literary subtleties, and a generosity towards his subjects that is warm' Sunday Times
'Funny, exciting, illuminating, wonderful, so engaging. Tells us more than a little about our own selves along the way' Irish Times
'There is something interesting and insightful on almost every page' Observer
'Sparkling, subtle, witty and often deeply moving . . . A classic' Fintan O'Toole, New Statesman
'Scintillating, imaginative, enlightening and powerfully moving throughout' Roy Foster, Spectator
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There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page Rachel Cooke Guardian