A guest at the feast
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-2023
Book
'A Guest at the Feast' uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction.
Main title:
A guest at the feast / Colm Tóibín.
Author:
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2023.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Viking, 2022.
ISBN:
9780241970614 (pbk)
Dewey class:
824.92824.92 TOI
Language:
English
BRN:
3598024