Booking Passage - Couverture rigide

Thomas, Lynch

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224062212 ISBN 13 : 9780224062213

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that his great-grandfather - another Thomas Lynch - had left late in the nineteenth century with a one-way ticket to America. Tommy and Nora Lynch, his elderly, unmarried, distant cousins welcomed the young American 'home'. In the words of the author, 'it changed my life'. He inherited the 'home place' when Nora died in 1992. In the three decades since that first landing and in dozens of return trips to Moveen, Lynch learned to look for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish; to find, as Montaigne wrote, 'the whole of Man's estate' in every man. Lynch's poems and essays, widely published around the world, have made known the debt he owes to Ireland and the Irish. Booking Passage is part travelogue, part cultural study, part memoir and elegy, part guidebook for what Lynch calls 'fellow pilgrims' working their way through their own and the larger histories.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas Lynch is the author of two collections of essays, Bodies in Motion and at Rest and The Undertaking, which was shortlisted for the 1997 National Book Award, and two collections of poems: Grimalkin & Other Poems and Still Life in Milford. He lives and works in Milford, Michigan, where he is the funeral director, and in West Clare where he keeps an ancestral cottage.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224062212
• ISBN 13: 9780224062213
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible