Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
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Product Information
| ISBN | 9780241354421 |
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| Authors | Colm Toibin |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.144 |
| Publishing Date | 25/07/2019 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €14.15 |
| Tax | €0.85 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €15.00 |
| Availability | 9 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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