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The Art of Life
Paul Durcan
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Description for The Art of Life
Paperback. Takes us around County Mayo in the author's "filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra", stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself to be "globally sad", but "locally glad". This book reveals one of Ireland's most successful and popular poets at the height of his powers and continuing to challenge, amuse and delight. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 199 x 12. Weight in Grams: 160.
In The Art of Life Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra , stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself to be globally sad , but locally glad . Next he travels east to Dublin to hold in his arms his newborn granddaughter and thence to Tuscany, Poland and Japan. Along the way he reflects upon parental pride, the aches and pains of old age, the trim bottoms of snooker players, the wisdom of ex-wives and dogs on Sandymount Strand, while introducing us to a host ... Read more
In The Art of Life Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra , stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself to be globally sad , but locally glad . Next he travels east to Dublin to hold in his arms his newborn granddaughter and thence to Tuscany, Poland and Japan. Along the way he reflects upon parental pride, the aches and pains of old age, the trim bottoms of snooker players, the wisdom of ex-wives and dogs on Sandymount Strand, while introducing us to a host ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846557521
SKU
V9781846557521
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About Paul Durcan
Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944. His first book, Endsville (1967), has been followed by more than twenty others, including The Berlin Wall Cafe (a Poetry Book Society Choice in 1985), Daddy, Daddy (winner of the Whitbread Award for Poetry in 1990), Crazy About Women (1991), A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems (1993), Give Me ... Read more
Reviews for The Art of Life
An embedded poet catching the strains, hysterical and sad, of contemporary Ireland
Colm Toibin
Guardian
Paul Durcan's Ireland is the one we inhabit. At times he is ready to celebrate the bizarre and the ordinary; at other times he is full of surreal rage against both order and disorder
Colm Toibin Durcan ... Read more
Colm Toibin
Guardian
Paul Durcan's Ireland is the one we inhabit. At times he is ready to celebrate the bizarre and the ordinary; at other times he is full of surreal rage against both order and disorder
Colm Toibin Durcan ... Read more