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Mad, bad, dangerous to know : the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce / Colm Toibin

By:

Toibin, Colm, (, 1955-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Scribner , c2018Description: 253 p. ; 21cmISBN:

9781476785172

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DDC classification:

820.9 TOI

Summary: Colm Tóibín begins with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways these men surface in their work. Through these stories of fathers and sons, Tóibín recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	820.9 TOI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		031754

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Includes bibliography and index

Colm Tóibín begins with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university and where three Irish literary giants also came of age: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce. Illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways these men surface in their work. Through these stories of fathers and sons, Tóibín recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors.

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