Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Language
- english
- Release date
- July 25, 2019
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-35442-1
- GTIN
- 9780241354421
- Weight, g
- 140
About
An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Tóibín __________________
In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Tóibín takes three of Ireland's greatest writers — Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce — and examines their earliest influences: their fathers.
With his inimitable wit and sensitivity, Tóibín introduces us to Wilde Senior, the philandering doctor whose libel case prefigured that of his son; the elder Yeats, an impoverished artist who never finished a painting; and to John Stanislaus Joyce, the hard-drinking, storytelling father of James, who couldn't feed his own family.
This is an illuminating study of how each of these men cast a long shadow not only over the lives of their famous sons, but over the works for which they are celebrated and cherished. __________________
'Astonishing to read. Tóibín has a hawk-like eye for literary subtleties, and a generosity towards his subjects that is warm' Sunday Times
'Funny, exciting, illuminating, wonderful, so engaging. Tells us more than a little about our own selves along the way' Irish Times
'There is something interesting and insightful on almost every page' Observer
'Sparkling, subtle, witty and often deeply moving ... A classic' Fintan O'Toole, New Statesman
'Scintillating, imaginative, enlightening and powerfully moving throughout' Roy Foster, Spectator