The Crazy Life of Brendan Behan
Author | : Frank Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781449068950 |
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Author | : Frank Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2010-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781449068950 |
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Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 265 |
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ISBN | : 1467006920 |
Author | : Michael O'Sullivan |
Publisher | : Roberts Rinehart |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2000-10-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1461660270 |
Hailed as the new O'Casey by Irish critics in 1958, Behan is now often portrayed as the archetypal Irishman and spectacular drunk. Behind the myth lies the more compelling story of a writer who was never able to fully harness his larger-than-life personality and talent.
Author | : Ulick O'Connor |
Publisher | : Abacus |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2014-09-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0349140960 |
When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow , The Hostage and Borstal Boy . But Behan drowned his talent in a whiskey bottle and became the caricature of an Irish stage drunk, clowning his way with oaths and stories between bars in Dublin, London, Paris and New York. Written in association with his widow, his mother and others of his family and friends, and old IRA comrades, this is a biography of Brendan Behan.
Author | : Brendan Behan |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2004-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781567921052 |
This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window . . ." The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland.
Author | : E. H. Mikhail |
Publisher | : London : Vision |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Aubrey Malone |
Publisher | : Y Lolfa |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2012-08-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1847715818 |
A short biography of Tom Jones's rags to riches story - his journey from a Welsh mining village to superstardom. The author explores his musical career, his special relationship with his wife and Wales, and also gives an insight into his phenomenal womanizing. This is a balanced and sympathetic account of Jones's personal and professional life.
Author | : Flann O'Brien |
Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781564781413 |
A comic look at Irish life. The narrator is Finbarr, an orphan raised amid the odor of good whisky and bad cooking. With a mixture of admiration and unease he watches his brother, Manus, turn into a young man of business, successful enough to move to England.
Author | : Brendan Behan |
Publisher | : The O'Brien Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2014-07-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847177301 |
Brendan Behan's genius was to strike a chord between critic and common man. When he died, at the age of 41, he was arguably the most celebrated Irish writer of the twentieth century. After the Wake is a collection of seven prose works and a series of articles. It includes all that exists of an unfinished novel, 'The Catacombs', and pieces together items whose comic and fanciful accounts evoke Flann O'Brien. Also featured are works of acknowledged excellence, 'The Confirmation Suit' and 'A Woman of No Standing'. This writing bears all the hallmarks of the author's talent – an ability to bring characters to life quickly and unforgettably, a sharp ear for dialogue and dialect, and a natural vocation for story-telling. This diverse collection is a delightful and entertaining windfall from one of Ireland's most colourful writers. An essential complement to Behan's master works.
Author | : Raymond Carver |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-05-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101970588 |
In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark.