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Title: Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats & Joyce
Author: TOIBIN COLM
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 30/10/2018
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $15.00
Publishing status: Active
Joyce, Wilde and Yeats are three of the most
famous men in Irish literary history. All three
led lives that were at times considered
unconventional or risqué, and all three were
raised by troubled fathers. William Wilde
was a highly successful medical practitioner
who became embroiled in a very public
court case. John Stanislaus Joyce was a
drunk who couldn’t manage money, and
who eventually drove his family away. John
Butler Yeats was a talented artist who died
alone in a New York boarding house. In this
unconventional biography, Irish novelist
Colm Tóibín tells the stories of these men,
and how each writer’s relationship to their
father affected the way they lived their own
lives, and shaped their art.
ISBN: 9781760781149
Weight: 300gr