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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know( )
Author: Toibin, Colm
ISBN:978-1-5082-6756-0
Publication Date:Oct 2018
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Audio
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $49.99
Book Description:

From Colm Toibin, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, comes an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men-William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce-and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their complicated sons.

Colm Toibin begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin...
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Author Biography
Toibin, Colm (Author)
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland in 1955. He studied history and English at University College Dublin, earning his B.A. in 1975. After graduating he moved to Barcelona for three years and taught at the Dublin School of English.

In 1978 he returned to Dublin and began working on an M.A. in Modern English and American Literature. He wrote for In Dublin, Hibernia, and The Sunday Tribune. He became the Features Editor of In Dublin in 1981, and then a year later accepted the position of Editor for the Irish current affairs magazine Magill.

His first book, Walking Along the Border, was published in 1987 and his first novel, The South, was published in 1990. He wrote for The Sunday Independent as a drama or television critic and political commentator. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books.

He has written several other novels including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and Nora Webster. The Heather Blazing received the 1993 Encore Award and The Master received the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. He was short listed for the 2015 Folio Prize for his title Nora Webster.

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