Tarry Flynn (Penguin Modern Classics)

Tarry Flynn (Penguin Modern Classics)

by PatrickKavanagh (Author)

Synopsis

He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland in the 1930s.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 28 Sep 2000

ISBN 10: 0141183616
ISBN 13: 9780141183619

Media Reviews
A work of art * Irish Times *
Author Bio
One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic canon, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was a post-colonial poet who released Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity and national politics. His poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focused on the 'common and banal' aspects of contemporary life.