No Laughing Matter
First published in 1989 No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien was the first full-length biography of Flann O'Brien. Rich in background, anecdote and social history, it is an extraordinary portrait of a writer and his times, perceptive, sympathetic and authoritative.Flann O'Brien (aka Brian O'Nolan) was born in Tyrone in 1911 and worked as a civil servant for many years. He also developed an alter ego, Myles na Gopaleen, whose saitrical column in The Irish Times soon acquired legendary status. At Swim-Two-Birds, his first novel, appeared in 1939 and was praised by James Joyce, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas and others. His secon…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84840-715-2
- EAN: 9781848407152
- Produktnummer: 30703107
- Verlag: New Island Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 390 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'892 KB
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Anthony Cronin was a poet, novelist and critic. Among his prose works are The Last Modernist (1996), a biography of Samuel Beckett, Dead as Doornails and The Life of Riley.
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