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Synopsis
This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelicspeaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the modern world that replaced it.
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O'Sullivan here tells the story of his growing up in Great Blasket, a sparse island off Ireland's Atlantic coast with a Gaelic-speaking population. Along with an introduction by E.M. Forster from the original 1933 printing, this edition contains new photos and illustrations by the author.--Library Journal
It is a summer island of romantic beauty that he shows us, dwelling always on the colour of the scenery and the bright, wild life...--Times Literary Supplement
This natural and beautiful book brings a breath of sea air and a strange music....It is as alive and sparkling as the sea on a summer morning.--The Observer
A book to buy, to beg, or to borrow. To miss it is to miss something which will leave your adventuring among books incomplete.--Irish Independent
You cannot possibly fail to enjoy this book, the only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation...--The Listener
About the Author
Maurice O'Sullivan was born in 1904 and joined the Civic Guard of the nascent Irish Republic as a young man, but found that law enforcement was not to his liking. While posted in Connemara he wrote a novel, Twenty Years A-Growing, for the entertainment was friends. He drowned tragically in 1950, leaving behind a widow and two children.
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- PublisherJ.S. Sanders Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1879941392
- ISBN 13 9781879941397
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages296
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