Twenty Years a-Growing - Couverture rigide

O'Sullivan, Maurice

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0192505327 ISBN 13 : 9780192505323

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1953

Synopsis

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... London 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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition. 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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without any thought of a wider public; his style is derived from folk-tales which he heard from his grandfather and sharpened by his own lively imagination. The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula. Until their evacuation just after the Second World War, the lives of the 150 or so Blasket Islanders had remained unchanged for centuries. A rich oral tradition of story-telling, poetry, and folktales kept alive the legends and history of the islands, and has made their literature famous throughout the world. The 7 Blasket Island books published by OUP contain memoirs and reminiscences from within this literary tradition, evoking a way of life which has now vanished.

Revue de presse

I was fascinated by the language of the book, originally written in Irish: much of the idiom of that language had been retained in the English Translation (Paul Buttle - The Independent)

Part of a unique and remarkable Irish literary archive ... compelling. (Neil Johnston, Belfast Telegraph, 24/6/00)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1953
• ISBN 10: 0192505327
• ISBN 13: 9780192505323
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible