Booking Passage by Lynch Thomas
In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that his great-grandfather - another Thomas Lynch - had left late in the nineteenth century with a one-way ticket to America. Tommy and Nora Lynch, his elderly, unmarried, distant cousins welcomed the young American 'home'. In the words of the author, 'it changed my life'. He inherited the 'home place' when Nora died in 1992. In the three decades since that first landing and in dozens of return trips to Moveen, Lynch learned to look for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish; to find, as Montaigne wrote, 'the whole of Man's estate' in every man. Lynch's poems and essays, widely published around the world, have made known the debt he owes to Ireland and the Irish. Booking Passage is part travelogue, part cultural study, part memoir and elegy, part guidebook for what Lynch calls 'fellow pilgrims' working their way through their own and the larger histories.
"'I'm in awe of Thomas Lynch's way with language: the plain-spoken honesty of this poet's prose' Elmore Leonard"
Thomas Lynch is the author of two collections of essays, Bodies in Motion and at Rest and The Undertaking, which was shortlisted for the 1997 National Book Award, and two collections of poems: Grimalkin & Other Poems and Still Life in Milford. He lives and works in Milford, Michigan, where he is the funeral director, and in West Clare where he keeps an ancestral cottage.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224062213 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224062212 |
| Title | Booking Passage |
| Author | Lynch Thomas |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2005-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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