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MAD BAD DANGEROUS TO KNOW - COLM TÓIBÍN KARTONI...

An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved
contemporary voices  Colm Tóibín__________________In Mad  Bad  Dangerous to Know Colm Tóibín
takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde  W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and
examines their earliest influences: their fathers.With his inimitable wit and sensitivity 
Tóibín introduces us to Wilde Senior  the philandering doctor whose libel case prefigured that
of his son  the elder Yeats  an impoverished artist who never finished a painting  and to John
Stanislaus Joyce  the hard-drinking  storytelling father of James  who couldn't feed his own
family.This is an illuminating study of how each of these men cast a long shadow not only over
the lives of their famous sons  but over the works for which they are celebrated and
cherished.__________________'Astonishing to read. Tóibín has a hawk-like eye for literary
subtleties  and a generosity towardshis subjects that is warm' Sunday Times'Funny  exciting 
illuminating  wonderful  so engaging. Tells us more than a little about our own selves along
the way' Irish Times'There is something interesting and insightful on almost every page'
Observer'Sparkling  subtle  witty and often deeply moving . . . A classic' Fintan O'Toole  New
Statesman'Scintillating  imaginative  enlightening and powerfully moving throughout' Roy Foster
Spectator

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