Something in the Head
Madeline. Kingston
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | New York : : The Lilliput Press, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (140 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Title page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Epigraph; I. I Bake Buns; II. A Sentient Mess; III. Pray for Poor England; Epilogue; Bibliography; Copyright. - This is the first full biography of Athlone-born writer John Broderick (1924-89), whose powerful Balzacian novels of life in the Irish midlands depict sexuality and Catholicism in a series of pungent tableaux and portraits drawn from vivid but entrapped lives. Son of a prosperous baker, the solitude of his childhood (compounded by boarding-school), an enveloping mother, homosexuality and alcoholism fuelled his fictions, from The Pilgrimage (1961) to An Apology for Roses (1973) and The Trial of Father Dillingham (1982). Self-exiled to Bath in England with his housekeeper during the 1970s, he be
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| ISBN | 1843510472
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