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Something In The Head: The Life and Work of John Broderick
Madeline Kingston
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paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
This is the first full biography of Athlone-born writer John Broderick (1924-89), whose powerful Balzacian novels of life in the Irish midlands depict sexuality and Catholicism in a series of pungent tableaux and portraits drawn from vivid but entrapped lives. Son of a prosperous baker, the solitude of his childhood (compounded by boarding-school), an enveloping mother, homosexuality and alcoholism fuelled his fictions, from The Pilgrimage (1961) to An Apology for Roses (1973) and The Trial of Father Dillingham (1982). Self-exiled to Bath in England with his housekeeper during the 1970s, he became an astringent commentator on the rapidly shifting mores ... Read more
This is the first full biography of Athlone-born writer John Broderick (1924-89), whose powerful Balzacian novels of life in the Irish midlands depict sexuality and Catholicism in a series of pungent tableaux and portraits drawn from vivid but entrapped lives. Son of a prosperous baker, the solitude of his childhood (compounded by boarding-school), an enveloping mother, homosexuality and alcoholism fuelled his fictions, from The Pilgrimage (1961) to An Apology for Roses (1973) and The Trial of Father Dillingham (1982). Self-exiled to Bath in England with his housekeeper during the 1970s, he became an astringent commentator on the rapidly shifting mores ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510475
SKU
KTJ8039314
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Ref
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About Madeline Kingston
MADELINE KINGSTON was born in County Fermanagh and graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1967. Postgraduate study of the French writer Julien Green led her to her subject. This is her first book.
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