The Eggman and the Fairies by Hubert Butler
'He has all the essayist's gifts: a clear, strong prose, a fascination with everyday affairs and their significance sub specie aternitatis, a readiness to generalize, the ability to digress without wandering from the point, to inform without pedantry and enlighten without condescension, to give us pleasure simply by sharing his thoughts.' -- Hugh Bredin This volume contains an essential selection of Hubert Butler's essays on Ireland, written over four decades: reflective, autobiographical pieces which describe a local habitation and a place, but gravitate unerringly towards the great issues of the day - neutrality, partition, censorship, religion, nationalism. With his incisive considerations of individual and political identity, Butler joins the great tradition of Irish libertarians going back to Swift and Burke.
John Banville's novels include The Book of Evidence, The Sea, which was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2005, and The Infinities. A new novel, Ancient Light, will be published in July. He was the recipient of the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize. Hubert Marshal Butler (2 October 1900 - 5 January 1991) was an Irish essayist who wrote on a wide-range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the political and religious affairs of eastern Europe before and during World War II
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| ISBN 13 | 9781907903502 |
| ISBN 10 | 190790350X |
| Title | The Eggman and the Fairies |
| Author | Hubert Butler |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Notting Hill Editions |
| Year published | 2012-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 262 |
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