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A GUEST AT THE FEAST - COLM TÓIBÍN GEBUNDEN

A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet  where life and
fiction overlap  where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy
and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own
cancer diagnosis  Tóibín delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness
and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and
the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances  we find ourselves considering law and
religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction. The imprint of
the written word on the private self  as Tóibín himself remarks  is extraordinarily powerful.
In this collection  that power is gloriously alive  illuminating history and literature 
politics and power  family and the self. 'Tóibín's voice is so powerful and distinct  his
descriptions so precise  that a single thread does weave through each of these pieces and does
not snap . . . perhaps Ireland's greatest living male writer' Sunday Times 'An unsurprisingly
erudite  gracefully written unpicking of the world' Independent

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