The Green Fool
$27.56
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2001
Summary
A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland’s best-loved writers.
My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed.
Time hardly mattered in the village of Mucker, the birthplace of poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh. Full of wry humour, Kavanagh’s unsentimental and evocative account of his Irish rural upbringing describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184203 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184205 |
| Author: | Patrick Kavanagh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2001 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was a major figure in the modern Irish poetic canon. A post-colonial poet, he freed Anglo-Irish verse from its long-held focus on history, ethnicity, and national politics. His poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focused on the ‘common and banal’ aspects of contemporary life.
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