The Crazy Life of Brendan Behan
Author : Frank Gray
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449068950
The Crazy Life of Brendan Behan
Author :
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1467006920
Book Description
Brendan Behan
Author : Michael O'Sullivan
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 36,84 MB
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1461660270
Book Description
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.
Borstal Boy
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781567921052
Book Description
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.
Brendan Behan
Author : Ulick O'Connor
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0349140960
Book Description
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.
The Hard Life
Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564781413
Book Description
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.
After The Wake
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847177301
Book Description
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.
The Art of Brendan Behan
Author : E. H. Mikhail
Publisher : London : Vision
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 1979
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Brendan Behan
Author : E.H. Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 134906016X
Book Description
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524760803
Book Description
Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017 Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017 Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more. In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.
