Moveen West, Kilkee County Clare - Being Irish & American - Hardcover

Lynch, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393042065 ISBN 13: 9780393042061

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005

Synopsis

Traces the author's numerous visits to the Irish community where his grandfather lived one hundred years before, describing his relationships with local residents and how the town and its people reflect the larger outside world.

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Review:

"A curious and engaging series of pieces which retain a personal and historical flavour...while he is excellent on Irish history and the immigrant experience" (Stephanie Merritt Observer)

"By turns diverting, evocative and provocative, Booking Passage gets to grips with all the muddle and multiplicity of its author's lifelong concerns. It does so, to our enjoyment, in a spirit of discernment and delight'" (Patricia Craig Independent)

"Heartfelt and artfully expressed" (Scotland on Sunday)

"There are some beautiful observations about what it means to embrace a new culture, while holding on to, and romanticising, an old one...[with] lyrical and moving descriptions of Ireland, Irishness and the linguistic consequences of American cultural imperialism" (Time Out)

"Profound, funny and immensely moving" (Sunday Times)

From the Publisher:

I'm in awe of Thomas Lynch's way with language: the plain-spoken honesty of this poet's prose' Elmore Leonard

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0393042065
• ISBN 13: 9780393042061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320