Tarry Flynn by Patrick Kavanagh
He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story A semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Patrick Kavanagh's Tarry Flynn is an idyllic and beautifully evocative account of life as it was lived in Ireland in the 1930s.Patrick Kavanagh was born in the town of Inniskeen in the county of Monaghan in the year 1904. Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), A Soul for Sale and Other Poems (1947), and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1960) were among his poetic volumes. He also published Tarry Flynn (1948), a fiction, and The Green Fool (1938), an autobiography. In 1967, he passed away.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140045536 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140045538 |
| Title | Tarry Flynn |
| Author | Patrick Kavanagh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1978-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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