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PublisherLilliput Press, The Limited, T.H.E.
ISBN-101901866424
ISBN-139781901866421
eBay Product ID (ePID)1669755
Product Key Features
Book TitleDead As Doornails
Number of Pages203 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEurope / Ireland, Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1999
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections, History
AuthorAnthony Cronin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-274348
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal828/.91409 B
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisIn this account of life in post-war literary Dublin, Anthony Cronin writes of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink; the shortage of sex; the insecurity and begrudgery; the limitations of cultural life in mid-century Ireland, and the bittersweet pull of exile., Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is funny and colourful, but also a clear-eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today., Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Myles na Gopaleen; but it is also a clear-eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today. Cronin writes with remarkable subtlety of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink, the shortage of sex, the insecurity and begrudgery, the painful limitations of cultural life, and the bittersweet pull of exile. We read of a comical sojourn in France with Behan, and of Cronin's years in London as a literary editor and a friend of the writer Julian Maclaren-Ross and the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun. The generation chronicled by Cronin was one of wasted promise. That waste is redressed through the shimmering prose of Dead as Doornails, earning its place in Irish literary history alongside the best works of Behan, Kavanagh and Myles.
LC Classification NumberPR6053.R55Z52 1999
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