Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

EnglishPaperback / softback
Tóibín, Colm
Penguin Books Ltd
EAN: 9780241354421
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An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Tóibín
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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.
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'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

EAN 9780241354421
ISBN 0241354420
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date July 25, 2019
Pages 192
Language English
Dimensions 198 x 129 x 12
Country United Kingdom
Authors Toibin, Colm