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Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans

Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans

by ThomasLynch (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $7.87
Synopsis

In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that his great-grandfather had left late in the nineteenth century with a one-way ticket to America. Tommy and Nora Lynch, Thomas Lynch's elderly, unmarried, distant cousins welcomed the young American 'home'. In the words of the author, 'it changed my life'. Booking Passage is part travelogue, part cultural study, part memoir and elegy, part guidebook for what Lynch calls 'fellow pilgrims' working their way through their own and the larger histories. It is a magnificent hymn of praise to Ireland.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 0099428199
ISBN 13: 9780099428190
Book Overview: 'I'm in awe of Thomas Lynch's way with language: the plain-spoken honesty of this poet's prose' - Elmore Leonard

Media Reviews
A curious and engaging series of pieces which retain a personal and historical flavour...while he is excellent on Irish history and the immigrant experience -- Stephanie Merritt * Observer *
By turns diverting, evocative and provocative, Booking Passage gets to grips with all the muddle and multiplicity of its author's lifelong concerns. It does so, to our enjoyment, in a spirit of discernment and delight' -- Patricia Craig * Independent *
Heartfelt and artfully expressed * Scotland on Sunday *
There are some beautiful observations about what it means to embrace a new culture, while holding on to, and romanticising, an old one...[with] lyrical and moving descriptions of Ireland, Irishness and the linguistic consequences of American cultural imperialism * Time Out *
Profound, funny and immensely moving * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Thomas Lynch's poems, essays and stories have appeared in The Atlantic and Granta, Harper's and the Times (of London, New York, Ireland and L.A.) and elsewhere. He has published four poetry collections and a collection of stories, Apparition & Other Late Fictions (published by Jonathan Cape), as well as works of non-fiction, including The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. He lives in Milford, Michigan and in Moveen, West Clare.