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Editore: Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom, 1978
ISBN 10: 0192505327ISBN 13: 9780192505323
Da: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. No Edition Or Printing Stated. Original Printing (1953). The Book Is Bound In Black Cloth With Gilt Stamped Lettering On The Spine And The Oxford Seal Blind Stamped On The Front. There Is A Faint Damp Stain At The Foredges Of The First And Last Few Pages. No Ownership Information Present. The Jacket Is Worn And Damp Stained.
Editore: New York, The Viking Press, 1933, 1933
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. xii, 303 p. 22 cm. ; LC: DA990.B65; Dewey: 914.196 ; LCCN: 33-20542 ; OCLC: 355514 ; green and beige cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; "Translation from the original Irish by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson." ; Contents : In Dingle -- My first journey home -- THe island -- A day's hunting -- Ventry races -- Pierce's cave -- A shoal of mackerel -- Hallowe'en -- The whale -- The wake -- A night in t he Inish -- The war -- The shipwreck -- The Wanderer -- The lobster season -- Matchmaking -- The wedding day -- An American wake -- The stranger -- My last journey to the Inish -- I leave home -- From Single east -- The City of Dublin -- The Civic Guard -- Connemara ; O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation.-Sean O'Fáoláin ; 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. ; "Here is the egg of a seabird, lovely, perfect, and laid this very morning "--E M Forster ; spine sunned, else VG/VG. Book.