Yeats is Dead!
Language: English
Published by New York: Knopf, 2001, New York, 2001
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Wraps. Uncorrected Proof. Uncorrected Proofs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 259 pp. Bright, very good copy. Written by 15 Irish writers.
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- Title
- Yeats is Dead!
- Author
- Doyle, Roddy et al
- Publisher
- New York: Knopf, 2001, New York
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Uncorrected Proofs
- Binding
- Wraps
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375412972
- ISBN 13
- 9780375412974
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Each chapter is written by a different writer and each writer seems eager to outdo the last by killing off as many characters as possible. This can be good, bloody fun. It can also lead to some creaky exposition along the lines of this passage from Cronin's chapter: "The guard that got shot. What did he think he was up to? And what was his connection, if any, with the Tommy Reynolds murder?" More successful are the writers who altogether give up the ghost of creating a cohesive mystery and instead wallow around in literary references and ridiculously purple prose. Here novelist Joseph O'Connor tries his hand at an action scene: "Gravity and Mrs Roberts had entered into conflict and, as devotees of the late Sir Isaac will confirm, out of such a negotiation may emerge one victor." Not exactly Tom Clancy and a good thing too.
The Irish keep turning out these collaborative efforts, the most recent being Finbar's Hotel and Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel. (By the way, £1 from the sale of this particular round-robin will go to Amnesty International.) In any case, the format can be tough on the writer who must bundle it all up in the final chapter. Here the task falls to honorary Irishman Frank McCourt and let it be said he does his salty, saucy best. --Claire Dederer, Amazon.com
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